Fertility and female labor supply in Uruguay: An Economic Approach

 

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Bibliografiset tiedot
Tekijät: Pagano, Juan Pablo, Rijo, Natalia, Rossi, Máximo
Aineistotyyppi: artículo original
Tila:Versión publicada
Julkaisupäivä:2010
Kuvaus: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.
Maa:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisaatio:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Kieli:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/1088
Linkit:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/article/view/1088
Sanahaku:fertility
labor supply
endogeneity.
fecundidad
oferta laboral
endogeneidad.