Sibling-sex composition and its effects on fertility and labor supply of Greek mothers

Joan Daouli (), Michael Demoussis () and Nicholas Giannakopoulos ()

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 102, issue 3, 189-191

Abstract: Using Greek census data and applying IV-estimation techniques [Angrist, J., and Evans, W., 1998, Children and their parents' labor supply: evidence from exogenous variation in family size, American Economic Review, 88(3) 450-577.], we investigate whether the sex composition of children identifies the causal effect of fertility on maternal employment. Sibling-sex composition appears to be a rather weak instrument in Greece, a low-fertility/low-employment country.

Keywords: Fertility; Female; employment; Instrumental; variables; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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