Fertility and parents' labour supply: new evidence from US census data: Winner of the OEP prize for best paper on Women and Work

✍ Scribed by Vere, J. P.

• Book ID: 118738749
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-7653
• DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpr003

✦ Synopsis

life cycle effects of fertility on women's and couples' labour supply. Multiple births are used as an instrument to control for unobserved heterogeneity. For single women, the causal effect of fertility has declined significantly over time. Couples, however, have become more specialized along traditional lines, with married men tending to increase labour earnings rather than reduce hours worked.