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The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran

IZA Journal of Labor and Development (2015) 4(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s40175-015-0030-x
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This paper estimates the effect of having children on labor force participation of mothers in urban Iranian areas. I exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility. Using information from the Iranian Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) over three samples, namely, households with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor force participation in Iran. JEL codes: J13, J22

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Azimi, E. (2015). The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran. IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40175-015-0030-x

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