Effects of the firstborn on the labor results of mothers: Evidence for Latin America
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Female labor supply, preference for the first son, behavior of mothersAbstract
This research shows that in some Latin American countries women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work than women with firstborns. The object of study is to try to understand why women react that way. For this, the hypothesis of the effect of desire for a child (Dahl and Moretti, 2008) and of the divorce effect (Bedard and Deschenes, 2005; Ananat and Michaels, 2008) were tested, based on an identification strategy that considers that the sex of the first child at conception is random.
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