Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201440 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2018:2
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings are: (i) negative, large and long lasting; (ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor supply; and (iii) much stronger at the extensive margin than at the intensive margin.
Subjects: 
children
extensive and intensive fertility margins
female labor supply
JEL: 
D82
J13
J16
J22
J31
J32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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