Arbeitspapier
Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U.S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility timing and labor force participation as choices. Consistent with the model's predictions, we find that reductions in child mortality led women to delay childbearing, increase their labor force participation, improve their occupational status, and to be less likely to have ever married.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2018-15
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- Thema
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women's labor force participation
fertility timing
childlessness
child mortality
maternal mortality
medical innovation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bhalotra, Sonia R.
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
Walther, Selma
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Colchester
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bhalotra, Sonia R.
- Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
- Walther, Selma
- University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Entstanden
- 2018
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