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Educación y crecimiento económico: Efectos del primog??nito en los resultados laborales de las madres: evidencia para América Latina

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  • Carlos Salas Peña

    (Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco , Perú)

Abstract

We show that in Latin America, those women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work and to be in the labor force. To understand the mechanisms that explain these effects, the hypothesis of the desire for a boy child effect (Dahl and Moretti, 2004) and the divorce effect (Bedard and Deschenes, 2005; Ananat and Michaels, 2008) were tested, based on an identification strategy that considers the sex of the first child at conception to be random. We found that higher fertility and marital stability are possible explanations for the lower labor participation of mothers.

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  • Carlos Salas Peña, 2023. "Educación y crecimiento económico: Efectos del primog??nito en los resultados laborales de las madres: evidencia para América Latina," Económica, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, vol. 69, pages 30-63, January-D.
    • Handle: RePEc:lap:journl:640
    DOI: 10.24215/18521649e030
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    Keywords

    oferta laboral femenina; preferencia por el primer hijo varón; comportamiento de las madres.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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