INVESTIGADORES
CRUCES Guillermo Antonio
artículos
Título:
Fertility and female labor supply in Latin America: New causal evidence
Autor/es:
GUILLERMO CRUCES; SEBASTIÁN GALIANI
Revista:
Labour Economics
Editorial:
Elsevier Science
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam: North-Holland; Año: 2007 vol. 14 p. 565 - 573
ISSN:
0927-5371
Resumen:
We study the effect of fertility on maternal labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. We find that the estimates for the US can be generalized both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of these two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer formal facilities for childcare.
