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Fertility and female labour supply in Latin America: new causal evidence

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Fertility and female labour supply in Latin America: new causal evidence

Autor institucional: NU. CEPAL. División de Desarrollo Económico Physical Description: 31 páginas. Editorial: ECLAC Date: November 2006 ECLAC symbol: LC/L.2587-P ISBN: 9211216060

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Abstract We study the effect of fertility on maternal labour 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 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.