Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Rainald Borck

No 3337, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist multiple equilibria: one with zero childcare provision, low fertility and female labour supply and high wage gap, and one with high childcare provision, high fertility and female labour supply and low wage gap.

Keywords: cultural preferences; fertility; female labour supply; wage gap; childcare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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