| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10903 |
| DP10903 Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility | |
| Andrei Levchenko; Quy-Toan Do; Claudio Raddatz | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-10-25 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We build a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor, and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage in either female-labor or male-labor intensive goods. The main prediction of the model is that countries with comparative advantage in female-labor intensive goods are characterized by lower fertility. This is because female wages, and therefore the opportunity cost of children are higher in those countries. We demonstrate empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility. We use a geography-based instrument for trade patterns to isolate the causal effect of comparative advantage on fertility. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Fertility Trade integration Comparative advantage |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10903 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539733 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrei Levchenko,Quy-Toan Do,Claudio Raddatz. DP10903 Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility. 2015. |
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