In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...

This paper develops a structural empirical model of contraception and participation choice under imperfect control of fertility, learning and unobserved heterogeneity to identify, estimate and give a behavioral content to the effect of the first born child on female labor supply. Family planning...

This paper develops a structural empirical model of contraception and participation choice under imperfect control of fertility and learning in order to estimate the effect of the first born child on female work. I exploit family planning failures as sources of variation using the 1995 US...

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...

The effect of fertility on female labor supply has been a topic widely studied. Literature on treatment effects have estimated the effect of second and higher order births on female labor supply. Nevertheless, the effect of the first born child is still subject of interest. I propose to use the...