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In personal finance, child rearing involves a stream of costs, incurred expenses, and lost profits. The second category includes the partial loss of earnings due to the breaks in parents’ (mainly mothers’) career paths resulting from pregnancy, maternity leave, and slowdowns. This article’s purpose is to propose a method of estimating a mother’s financial gap over the course of her whole career as a result of raising children. The article is the next stage of the authors’ research, in which the cases of 1–3 children and a wage growth rate consistent with data published by the Central Statistical Office (higher at the beginning of career) are analyzed. The considerations are universal and applicable to the realities of other markets, but the numerical illustration is based on Poland’s reality. The results obtained can be useful for determining compensation claims related to accidents that result in the death of a child. This analysis also contributes to the discussion of social programs being considered in Poland, such as an additional state pension for women with more children.
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The project was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland under the program “Regional Initiative of Excellence” 2019–2022 project number 015/RID/2018/19. The total funding amount was 10,721,040.00 PLN.
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Jędrzychowska, A., Poprawska, E. (2021). The Influences of Birth and the Child—Raising on Household Finances: An Analysis of Lost Income. In: Bilgin, M.H., Danis, H., Demir, E., Vale, S. (eds) Eurasian Economic Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 16/1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63149-9_13
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