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Replication data for: Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size
Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)
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Replication data for: Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4W9GW2
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Joshua D. Angrist
William N. Evans |
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Harvard Dataverse
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Research on the labor-supply consequences of childbearing is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. This study uses parental preferences for a mixed sibling-sex composition to construct instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of childbearing on labor supply. IV estimates for women are significant but smaller than ordinary least-squares estimates. The IV are also smaller for more educated women and show no impact of family size on husbands' labor supply. A comparison of estimates using sibling-sex composition and twins instruments implies that the impact of a third child disappears when the child reaches age 13.
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1998
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