Effects of fertility on women`s working status

As in other developing countries, Peru’s demographic transition is well underway. Concurrently, women’s labor market participation and employment rates have substantially increased. In this paper we estimate the causal effect that the reduction in fertility rates has on women’s employment using inst...

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Autor principal: Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel - Autor/a
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Publicado: Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/collect/pe/pe-008/index/assoc/D13071.dir/AI20.pdf
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topic Mujeres trabajadoras
Mercado de trabajo
Fecundidad
Aspectos sociodemográficos
spellingShingle Mujeres trabajadoras
Mercado de trabajo
Fecundidad
Aspectos sociodemográficos
Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel - Autor/a
Effects of fertility on women`s working status
topic_facet Mujeres trabajadoras
Mercado de trabajo
Fecundidad
Aspectos sociodemográficos
description As in other developing countries, Peru’s demographic transition is well underway. Concurrently, women’s labor market participation and employment rates have substantially increased. In this paper we estimate the causal effect that the reduction in fertility rates has on women’s employment using instrumental variables already tested in developed countries—twins in the first birth and the sex composition of the two oldest children. We also analyze the heterogeneity of the effects along three lines: marriage status of the mother, age of the first (second) child, and mother’s level of education. We find strong effects of fertility. According to our results, 27 percent of the total increase in women’s rate of employment between 1993 and 2007 can be attributed to the reduction in fertility rates. This is a considerable magnitude, more than four times as large as the estimate for US by Jacobsen et al. (1999). Effects are largest in women with children 2 years old or younger and decline inversely as the first child increases in age, but are still significant when he or she reaches 10. Effects also vary with the mother’s education level, tending to be stronger when women have more education. Finally, these effects are smaller for married women than for all women.
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title Effects of fertility on women`s working status
title_short Effects of fertility on women`s working status
title_full Effects of fertility on women`s working status
title_fullStr Effects of fertility on women`s working status
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publisher Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo
publishDate 2017
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