The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran

Ebrahim Azimi ()

IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of having children on labor force participation of mothers in urban Iranian areas. I exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility. Using information from the Iranian Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) over three samples, namely, households with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor force participation in Iran. JEL codes: J13, J22 Copyright Azimi; licensee Springer. 2015

Keywords: Female labor force participation; Fertility; Children sex composition; Son preference; Instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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