childpen

childpen: Child Penalties Estimators & Simulation Tools

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

• 🧪 DID / TD / NTD estimators (single & multiple treatment groups)
• 🧰 Simulation tools
  
• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/dorleventer/childpen
  
• 🌐 Website: https://dorleventer.github.io/childpen

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Roadmap

Package functions

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

Explainers

• Data simulation — vignette
• Intuition for NTD bias — vignette
• DID estimation (in progress)
• TD bias
• TD estimation
• NTD baseline, alternative, and bias-corrected estimation
• Validation tests
• Aggregate estimates

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Installation

Install the latest development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dorleventer/childpen")
#> Using GitHub PAT from the git credential store.
#> Downloading GitHub repo dorleventer/childpen@HEAD
#> 
#> ── R CMD build ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>      checking for file ‘/private/var/folders/ls/2dzknzwx5q1fdfh311w86m3h0000gn/T/RtmpGBkyEK/remotes65077c39ce6a/dorleventer-childpen-9170e51/DESCRIPTION’ ...  ✔  checking for file ‘/private/var/folders/ls/2dzknzwx5q1fdfh311w86m3h0000gn/T/RtmpGBkyEK/remotes65077c39ce6a/dorleventer-childpen-9170e51/DESCRIPTION’
#>   ─  preparing ‘childpen’:
#>      checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...  ✔  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information
#>   ─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
#>   ─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
#>   ─  building ‘childpen_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz’
#>      
#> 
#> Warning in i.p(...): installation of package
#> '/var/folders/ls/2dzknzwx5q1fdfh311w86m3h0000gn/T//RtmpGBkyEK/file6507371ed0dd/childpen_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz'
#> had non-zero exit status