Younger children and mothers’ labour supply in rural India: Evidence from fertility stopping behaviour

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F24%3A00136318" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/24:00136318 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12546-024-09339-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12546-024-09339-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12546-024-09339-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12546-024-09339-w</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Younger children and mothers’ labour supply in rural India: Evidence from fertility stopping behaviour
Original language description
This paper estimates the causal effect of having young children aged 0 to 5 years on mothers’ labour force participation in rural India. To address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, I exploit Indian families’ preference for having sons. I leverage exogenous variation in the gender of older children aged 6+ years as an instrumental variable for having younger children aged 0 to 5 years in the family. IV estimates show that the mothers’ participation is significantly reduced by 9.9% due to the presence of young children aged 0 to 5 years in the household, with the negative effect mostly driven by mothers belonging to the highest income quartile; mothers with high education; and mothers residing in nuclear families. The findings highlight the need for investment in high-skilled jobs and formal childcare facilities to encourage mothers’ labour supply. Using the testable implications for the generalizability of LATE discussed in Angrist (2004), I show that the estimated causal effect is homogenous across compliers, always takers, and never takers and thus, generalizable to the whole population of interest.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50402 - Demography

Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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