Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census

dc.creatorArdington, Cally
dc.creatorLam, David
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.creatorMenendez, Alicia
dc.date2015-07-02T15:48:36Z
dc.date2015-07-02T15:48:36Z
dc.date2015-07
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-06T10:55:49Z
dc.date.available2017-06-06T10:55:49Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-06
dc.descriptionThe relationship between fertility and female labour force participation has been a subject of attention for several decades. Most of the literature focuses on developed countries and responds to the interest in understanding the evolution of the increasing female role in labour markets during the last century and the possible effect that controlled fertility may have on it. Fertility, however, is a choice variable and thus endogenous. Therefore, disentangling its impact is not straight forward and several approaches have been proposed over time in order to isolate it. One of those methods is the use of multiple births occurrence as an instrument for exogenous fertility which was introduced by Rosenzweig and Wolpin (1980) and also used by Bronars and Grogger (1994) and Jacobsen et al. (1999) in the context of developed countries and by Careces-Delpiano (2012) and Ponczek and Souza (2012) for developing countries.
dc.identifierArdington, C., Lam, D., Leibbrandt, M., Menendez, A. (2015). Fertility and mother’s labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 149. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town
dc.identifier978-1-928281-10-8
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/782
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper DA - 2017-06-06 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Fertility KW - Female Labour Force KW - South African Census LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2017 T1 - Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census TI - Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/782 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/782
dc.languageen
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.relationSaldru Working Paper;149
dc.subjectFertility
dc.subjectFemale Labour Force
dc.subjectSouth African Census
dc.titleFertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census
dc.typeWorking Paper
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uct.type.resourceWorking Paperen_ZA
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