Fertility and female labor supply in Latin America: New causal evidence

被引：101

作者：

Cruces, Guillermo

Galiani, Sebastian

机构：

[1] Univ San Andres, RA-1644 Victoria, BA, Argentina

[2] Univ London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, ECLAC Santiago Chile, London WC2A 2AE, England

[3] Univ London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, STICERD, London WC2A 2AE, England

来源：

LABOUR ECONOMICS | 2007年 / 14卷 / 03期

关键词：

causality; childbearing and female labor supply in developing countries;

D O I：

10.1016/j.labeco.2005.10.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

we study the effect of fertility on maternal labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans [Angrist, J., Evans, W., 1998. Children and their parents' labor supply: evidence from exogenous variation in family size. American Economic Review 88 (3), 450-577] for the United States. We find that the estimates for the US can be generalized both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer formal facilities for childcare. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：565 / 573

页数：9

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