Fertility and women’s employment: a meta-analysis

Anna Matysiak and Daniele Vignoli ()

No WP-2006-048, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: Our research objective was to systematise the existing literature on the relation between fertility and women’s employment at the micro-level. Instead of carrying out a traditional literature review, we conducted a meta-analysis. This allowed us to compare estimates from different studies standardised for the country analysed, the method applied, control variables used, or sample selected. We focused on two effects: the impact of work on fertility and the impact of young children on employment entry. First, we found a high variation in the studied effects among the institutional settings, reflecting the existence of a north-south gradient. Second, we observed a significant change in the effects over time. Finally, we demonstrated that a failure to account for the respondent’s social background, partner and job characteristics tends to produce a bias to the estimated effects.

JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2006-048

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