An instrumental variable estimate of the effect of fertility on the labour force participation of married women

Chun, Hyunbae; Oh, Jeungil

doi:10.1080/13504850110117850

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“…This is indeed the finding of Chun and Oh (2002) for Korea who use the sex of the first child as an instrument for fertility in a labor supply equation for women, finding that mothers who have an additional child because their first-born child is a girl reduce the probability of labor force participation by 27.5%.…”

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino

Lindström²,

Viviano

2014

Economics Letters

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen randomly by nature. We consider two explanations. As Dahl and Moretti (2008) we show that first-born boys positively affect the probability that a marriage survives, but differently from them and from the literature on developing countries, we show that after a first-born boy the probability that women have more children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability of marriages, which is neglected by studies that focus on married women only.JEL Classification: E24, J13, J22, J23

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino

Lindström²,

Viviano

2014

Economics Letters

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“…For example, Rosenzweig and Wolpin (1980) noted that instrumenting endogeneity increases the coefficients compared to the exogenous model (Orbeta, 2005). For Korea, Chun and Oh (2002) found larger coefficient using instrumental variables estimates compared to OLS estimators when using households with at least one child, but smaller instrumental variables estimates when using households with at least two children. In a study of the effect on male labor supply, Lundberg and Rose (2002) also found similar results (Orbeta, 2005).…”

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“…Different studies used different instrumental variables to generate exogenous variation in fertility. These include, for example, twin first birth (Chun and Oh, 2002;Kim et al, 2009), abortion legislation (Bloom et al, 2007), contraceptive choice of couples (Kim and Aassve, 2006), sibling sex composition (Angrist and Evans, 1998;Cruces and Galiani, 2005), sibling sex composition and contraception unavailability (Aassve and Arpino, 2007) and sex of the first birth (Chun and Oh, 2002;Orbeta, 2005).…”

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Fertility and maternal hours of work in Ethiopia: a case study in the Amhara Region

Desta

2013

APS

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“…6 Suppose that the government succeeds in suppressing population growth by some policies that do not directly affect household investment in children's education. It might tax childbirth or just legally forbid having more than a certain number of children, like China's one-child policy.…”

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Sibling size and investment in children’s education: an asian instrument

2007

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion.Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South Korean households I find strong evidence of unobserved heterogeneity across households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high.JEL Classification: D13, J13, O12

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An instrumental variable estimate of the effect of fertility on the labour force participation of married women

Cited by 69 publications

References 6 publications

Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Fertility and maternal hours of work in Ethiopia: a case study in the Amhara Region

Sibling size and investment in children’s education: an asian instrument

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