全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP15752 Women’s Education, Fertility and Children’s Health during a Gender Equalization Process: Evidence from a Child Labor Reform in Spain

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15752
	DP15752 Women’s Education, Fertility and Children’s Health during a Gender Equalization Process: Evidence from a Child Labor Reform in Spain
	Cristina Bellés-Obrero; Antonio Cabrales; Sergi Jiménez-Martín; Judit Vall-Castello
发表日期	2021-02-01
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	We study the effect of women’s education on fertility and children’s health during a period of gender equalization and women’s greater access to economic opportunities. In 1980, Spain raised the minimum working age from 14 to 16, while compulsory education age remained at 14. This reform changed the within-cohort incentives to remain in the educational system. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the reform delayed fertility but did not impact completed fertility of affected women. We also show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the children’s of affected mothers at delivery. We document two channels for this negative effect: the postponement in the entrance of motherhood and the deterioration of women’s health habits (such as smoking and drinking). This last channel is a direct effect of the gender equalization process. However, in the medium run, these more educated mothers are able to reverse the negative health shocks at birth through maternal vigilance and investment in their children’s health habits.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Education Fertility Infant health Gender equalization
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15752
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/544754
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cristina Bellés-Obrero,Antonio Cabrales,Sergi Jiménez-Martín,等. DP15752 Women’s Education, Fertility and Children’s Health during a Gender Equalization Process: Evidence from a Child Labor Reform in Spain. 2021.