Fecundidad y oferta laboral femenina en el Uruguay

Un enfoque económico

Bibliographic Data

ID21184758
AuthorsJuan Pablo Pagano (Universidad de los Andes), Natalia Rijo (Universidad de la República de Uruguay), M Rossi (0000-0002-4116-922X, Universidad de los Andes)
Year2010
Volume7
Issue2
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoblación y Salud en Mesoamérica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1659-0201 • E-ISSN: 1659-0201
PublisherUniversidad de Costa Rica (PUBLISHER • CR)
DOI10.15517/psm.v7i2.1088
OpenAlexW2167572622
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited6

In the present work we study the joint determinants of fertility and female labor supply decisions in Uruguayan households. Basing on data from the Survey on Family Situation and Social Performance (Encuesta sobre Situaciones Familiares y Desempeños Sociales en Montevideo y Área Metropolitana) of 2001, we estimate the joint probability of a woman being employed and having had a child in the two years preceding the survey, through a bivariate probit model. The results confirm the existence of endogeneity between both outcomes, suggesting the presence of unobservable that make those women more prone to be in the labor force, also less prone to giving birth to children in the period. After accounting for this phenomenon, the direction of the effect under study changes

Bivariate analysis · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Fertility · Multivariate probit model · Population · Probit model · Sociology · Statistics · Unobservable · Welfare economics · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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