Motherhood and Female Labor Supply in the Developing World: Evidence from Infertility Shocks

Autor/inn/en	Aguero, Jorge M.; Marks, Mindy S.
Titel	Motherhood and Female Labor Supply in the Developing World: Evidence from Infertility Shocks
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 46 (2011) 4, S.800-826 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Employed Women; Labor Supply; Developing Nations; Family Size; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Labour Supply; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Familiengröße; Ausland
Abstract	We introduce a new instrument for family size, infertility, to investigate the causal relationship between children and female labor force participation. Infertility mimics an experiment where nature assigns an upper bound for family size, independent of a woman's background. This new instrument allows us to investigate the differential labor supply without restrictions on initial family size. Using the Demographic and Health Surveys from 26 developing countries we show that OLS estimates are biased upward. We find that the presence of children affects neither the likelihood of work nor its intensity, but impacts the type of work a woman pursues. (Contains 10 tables, 1 figure, and 14 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10