Fertility and Family Labor Supply

Katrine Jakobsen, Thomas H. J�rgensen and Hamish Low
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Thomas H. J�rgensen: CEBI, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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No 22-04, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Abstract: We study how fertility decisions interact with labor supply of men and women. First, we use longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms to show that increases in wages of women decrease fertility while increases in wages of men increase fertility. Second, we estimate a life-cycle model to quantify the importance of fertility adjustments for labor supply and long-run gender inequality. Wage elasticities of women are more than 10% lower if fertility cannot be adjusted in our model. Finally, we show that human capital depreciation around childbirth is an important driver of the long-run gender wage gap.

Keywords: Fertility; Labor supply; Human capital accumulation; Gender inequality; Tax reform; Life-Cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D15 H24 J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 69
Date: 2022-05-18
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