Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Arbeitspapier

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to induce nonmedically indicated CDs across weekdays. On weekends and public holidays obstetricians' are less likely to induce CDs (due tighter capacity constraints in hospital). On Fridays and other days preceding a holiday, they face an increased incentive to induce CDs (due to their demand for leisure on non-working days). We use high-quality administrative data from Austria. Women giving birth on different weekdays are pre-treatment observationally identical. Our instrumental variable estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper, CD-Lab Aging, Health and the Labor Market, Johannes Kepler University ; No. 1602

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Thema: Caesarean delivery ; Caesarean section ; fertility ; female labor supply

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Halla, Martin ; Mayr, Harald ; Pruckner, Gerald J. ; García-Gómez, Pilar
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Johannes Kepler University Linz, Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market
• (wo): Linz
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148260
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ