Effect of Childbearing on Female Labour Supply: An Empirical Study in Taiwan. Issue Volume 16:Issues 1(2017) (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Hung-Han
• Is Part Of: Journal of comparative Asian development. Volume 16:Issues 1(2017)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Childbearing -- female labour supply -- instrumental variable; J13 -- J22; Asia -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Periodicals; Asia -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Periodicals; Asia -- Social policy -- Periodicals; Economic history; Economic policy; Political science; Social policy; Asia; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 330.95
• DOI: 10.1080/15339114.2017.1279064
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1533-9114

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In society, women generally play the roles of mothers and employees, and those roles are partly substitute to each other; therefore, the contributions of women to the labour market should be considered. This paper applied the widely observed parental preference for children's sex as an instrumental variable for the number of children in Taiwan and examined the causal effect of childbearing on female labour supply. Ordinary least square estimates revealed that childbearing is associated with reduced female labour supply. However, after using the sex of first and second children as instruments to account for the endogeneity of the number of children, two-stage least square estimates revealed no correlation between the number of children and female labour supply.