Educación y crecimiento económico: Efectos del primog??nito en los resultados laborales de las madres: evidencia para América Latina

Carlos Salas Peña ()
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Carlos Salas Peña: Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco , Perú

Económica, 2023, vol. 69, 30-63

Abstract: We show that in Latin America, those women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work and to be in the labor force. To understand the mechanisms that explain these effects, the hypothesis of the desire for a boy child effect (Dahl and Moretti, 2004) and the divorce effect (Bedard and Deschenes, 2005; Ananat and Michaels, 2008) were tested, based on an identification strategy that considers the sex of the first child at conception to be random. We found that higher fertility and marital stability are possible explanations for the lower labor participation of mothers.

Keywords: oferta laboral femenina; preferencia por el primer hijo varón; comportamiento de las madres. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J13 J22 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.24215/18521649e030

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