How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment

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	How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment
	Li, Xia
刊名	ECONOMICS BULLETIN
	2012
卷号	32 期号:4 页码:2908-2920
ISSN号	1545-2921
英文摘要	In this study. I empirically estimate the impact of children on women's labor market outcomes (such as work status, work hours and earnings). The identification in a female labor supply model where the fertility is endogenous comes from the assumption that a miscarriage spontaneous loss of the pregnancy occurs mostly randomly. Medical research in general provides supportive evidence for this assumption One advantage of using the occurrence of a miscarriage to estimate the impact of children is that it allows one to estimate the impact of a first child versus no children at all, which is not possible when using other natural experiments such as twin births or the gender combination of the first two children. An instrumental variable based on the outcome of the first pregnancy is constructed and is used to estimate the coefficient of the endogenous fertility variable. The result shows that in general children have a modest negative impact on women's labor supply. It also shows that the IV estimates tend to be smaller in scale than the OLS estimates using the same data, which suggests it is indeed important to address the problem of endogenous fertility when estimating a female labor supply model.
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	ECONOMICS BULLETIN
WOS记录号	WOS:000219766200020
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/2176]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Li, Xia
作者单位	Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Econ, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Xia. How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment[J]. ECONOMICS BULLETIN,2012,32(4):2908-2920.
APA	Li, Xia.(2012).How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment.ECONOMICS BULLETIN,32(4),2908-2920.
MLA	Li, Xia."How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment".ECONOMICS BULLETIN 32.4(2012):2908-2920.