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Bhalotra, Sonia, Venkataramani, Atheendar and Walther, Selma (2023) Women’s fertility and labor market responses to a health innovation. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21 (4). pp. 1595-1646. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvac072 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac072
Abstract
We investigate women’s fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation and an improvement in occupational status. Our results provide the first evidence that improvements in child survival allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that incorporates dynamic choices and reconciles our findings with existing models of behavior.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1595-1646 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvac072 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 September 2022 | ||||||||
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