Female employment and fertility in rural China
By: Hai Fang, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, Richard J. Zeckhauser
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15886; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15886.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Data on 2,288 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are deployed to study how off-farm female employment affects fertility.  Such employment reduces a married woman's actual number of children by 0.64, her preferred number by 0.48, and her probability of having more than one child by 54.8 percent.  Causality flows in both directions; hence, we use well validated instrumental variables to estimate employment status.  China has deep concerns with both female employment and population size.  Moreover, female employment is growing quickly.  Hence, its implications for fertility must be understood.  Ramifications for China's one-child policy are discussed"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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