THE EFFECT OF FERTILITY ON MOTHERS' LABOUR SUPPLY OVER THE LAST TWO CENTURIES
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Aaronson, Daniel; Dehejia, Rajeev; Jordan, Andrew; Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Samii, Cyrus; Schulze, Karl
署名单位：
Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; New York University; University of Chicago; Columbia University; Princeton University
刊物名称：
ECONOMIC JOURNAL
ISSN/ISSBN：
0013-0133
DOI：
10.1093/ej/ueaa100
发表日期：
2021
页码：
1-32
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摘要：
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 arc consistent with changes in the sectoral and occupational structure of female jobs and a standard labour-leisure model.