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Women's schooling and fertility under low female labor force participation : evidence from mobility restrictions in Israel
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Lavy, Victor and Zablotsky, Alexander (2015) Women's schooling and fertility under low female labor force participation : evidence from mobility restrictions in Israel. Journal of Public Economics, 124 . pp. 105-121. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.02.009 ISSN 0047-2727.
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Abstract
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a mostly Muslim population with very low female labor force participation. We first show that a removal of travel restrictions on Israeli Arabs had raised female education and had almost no effect on male education. Next, we show that it lowered fertility rates among exposed women, which we interpret as an effect of female education on fertility. We rule out labor-force participation, age at marriage, marriage and divorce rates and spousal labor-force participation and earnings as confounding factors or as mechanisms but find that spousal education and children quality play a role in the fertility decline. We provide a variety of robustness tests that rule out other channels by which the removal of the travel restrictions could have affected fertility directly. These results are particularly interesting and important for the context of many Muslim countries with low rates of female labor force participation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Palestinian Arabs -- Women -- Childbirth -- Statistics -- Israel , Palestinian Arabs -- Women -- Education -- Statistics -- Israel , Palestinian Arabs -- Women -- Employment -- Statistics -- Israel | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Economics | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2727 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2015 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 124 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 105-121 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.02.009 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 January 2017 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 March 2017 |
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