Identification and Estimation of Child Penalties

Tools to simulate child-penalty data and estimate DID, TD, and NTD identification frameworks from Leventer (2025), "Identification of Child Penalties" .

childpen

This package accompanies my job market paper: Leventer, Dor (2025). Identification of Child Penalties.

• 🧪 DID / TD / NTD estimators (single & multiple treatment groups)
• 📄 Paper: arXiv:2602.07486
• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/dorleventer/childpen
• 🌐 Website: https://dorleventer.github.io/childpen/

Roadmap

Package functions

• [x] Estimation of single 2×2 — single_treatment_group_analysis()
• [x] Wrapper for multiple 2×2 — multiple_treatment_group_analysis()
• [x] Data simulation — simulate_data()
• [x] Aggregation over multiple groups — aggregate_estimands()

Explainers

• [x] Estimation (DID, TD, NTD) — vignette
• [x] NTD identification — vignette
• [x] Validation tests — vignette
• [x] Aggregate estimands — vignette

Installation

Install the latest development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dorleventer/childpen")