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Child costs and the causal effect of fertility on female labor supply : an investigation for Indonesia 1993 - 2008
Priebe, Jan - 2010
Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339415
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354544
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257598
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794700
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2015
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312614
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346050
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Children and Female Employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307114
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and longlasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRDWorld Bank Life in Transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814996
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Does unemployment worsen babies' health? : a tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection
De Cao, Elisabetta; McCormick, Barry; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019
importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099571