The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9705053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Aaronson (0000-0002-7197-6639, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Rajeev Dehejia (0000-0002-0927-429X, New York University), Andrew J Jordan (0000-0001-7678-1024), Andrew Jordan (University of Chicago), Cristian Pop-Eleches (0000-0002-3451-3555, Columbia University), Cyrus Samii (0000-0002-0823-1319, New York University), Karl Schulze (0000-0002-2724-7535, Princeton University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 633 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ej/ueaa100 |
| OpenAlex | W4285658274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 49 |
Using a compiled data set of 441 censuses and surveys from between 1787 and 2015, representing 103 countries and 51.4 million mothers, we find that: (i) the effect of fertility on labour supply is typically indistinguishable from zero at low levels of development and large and negative at higher levels of development, (ii) the negative gradient is stable across historical and contemporary data, and (iii) the results are robust to identification strategies, model specification, and data construction and scaling. Our results are consistent with changes in the sectoral and occupational structure of female jobs and a standard labour–leisure model
Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Labour economics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |