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dc.contributor.authorTroske, Kenneth R.en
dc.contributor.authorVoicu, Alexandruen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:14:41Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:14:41Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20515-
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women usingpanel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Weexamine the effect of children both prior to and after birth as well as how the effect of childrenvaries with the number of children. We also decompose the total effect of children into thedirect and indirect components and separately examine the dynamics of these components.Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertilitydecisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be correlated in a general fashion bothacross time and across choices. The estimation is performed using Markov chain MonteCarlo methods. We find that children have a strong effect on a women's labor marketbehavior in both the pre- and post-birth period. We also find that both the direct and indirecteffects are large immediately after the birth of a child but that the indirect effect declinesquickly over time. The effects of children vary by education and race.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1251en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelC15en
dc.subject.jelC11en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordfemale labor supplyen
dc.subject.keywordmultivariate probit modelen
dc.subject.keywordGibbs sampleren
dc.subject.stwFrauenerwerbstätigkeiten
dc.subject.stwKinderbetreuungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsangeboten
dc.subject.stwFamilienökonomiken
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwVereinigte Staatenen
dc.titleJoint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn395905486en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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