A microeconomic analysis of the timing of births

Cigno, Alessandro; Ermisch, John

doi:10.1016/0014-2921(89)90023-8

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“…Economic theory suggests that decisions about optimal fertility timing seek to maximize expected utility [7], [8]. This implies that fertility postponement is not a random event but is a decision women make based on expected costs and benefits.…”

Section: The Effect Of Delaying Motherhood On Women's Fertilitymentioning

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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes

Bratti¹

2014

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Section: The Effect Of Delaying Motherhood On Women's Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes

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2014

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“…To be more specific, the human capital loss depends on the prematernity human capital level, on the rate of depreciation due to non-use and on the life income profile (Gustafsson 2001). The steeper the wage increase (linked to the work experience) is, the longer the postponement of motherhood should be (Wetzels 1999, Cigno andErmish 1989). In other words, women with a flat wage profile by duration of work experience have less incentive to postpone motherhood, with respect to the ones who expect to have high wage increases.…”

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Differences in Delaying Motherhood Across European Countries: Empirical Evidence from the ECHP

Nicoletti

Tanturri

2008

Eur J Population

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. • ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change. Established in 1989 to identify, explain, model and forecast social change in Britain at the individual and household level, the Centre specialises in research using longitudinal data. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may• ESRC UK Longitudinal Centre. This national resource centre was established in October 1999 to promote the use of longitudinal data and to develop a strategy for the future of large-scale longitudinal surveys. It was responsible for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and for the ESRC's interest in the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study• European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences. ECASS is an interdisciplinary research centre which hosts major research programmes and helps researchers from the EU gain access to longitudinal data and cross-national datasets from all over Europe.The British Household Panel Survey is one of the main instruments for measuring social change in Britain. The BHPS comprises a nationally representative sample of around 5,500 households and over 10,000 individuals who are reinterviewed each year. The questionnaire includes a constant core of items accompanied by a variable component in order to provide for the collection of initial conditions data and to allow for the subsequent inclusion of emerging research and policy concerns.Among the main projects in ISER's research programme are: the labour market and the division of domestic responsibilities; changes in families and households; modelling households' labour force behaviour; wealth, well-being and socio-economic structure; resource distribution in the household; and modelling techniques and survey methodology.BHPS data provide the academic community, policymakers and private sector with a unique national resource and allow for comparative research with similar studies in Europe, the United States and Canada.BHPS data are available from the Data Archive at the University of Essex http://www.data-archive.ac.ukFurther information about the BHPS and other longitudinal surveys can be obtained by telephoning +44 (0) 1206 873543. ABSTRACTAge at motherhood has increased in most European Countries in the past decades. The main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of women's education and work experience on the timing of first birth across the European Union (EU).According to the literature -based on income maximisation framework (Gustafsson 2001, Hotz et al. 1997) -w...

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“…In the last decades two changes in women's behavior have attracted considerable attention by researchers in various social sciences: the increase in the age at first birth (see, for instance, Happel et al 1984, Cigno and Ermisch 1989, Chen and Morgan 1991, Blackburn et al 1993, Gustafsson 2001, Kohler et al 2002, Frejka and Sardon, 2006, which is generally associated with a reduction in female total fertility, and the rise in labor force participation (see Killingsworth and Heckman 1987, Fernandez et al 2004, Blau and Kahn 2007, Thevenon 2009, Fogli and Veldkamp 2011, among the others).…”

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Delayed First Birth and New Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks

Bratti

Cavalli

2013

Eur J Population

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement from that of total fertility. Our estimates suggest that delaying the first birth by one year raises the likelihood of participating in the labor market by 1.2 percentage points and weekly working time by about half an hour, while we do not find any evidence that late motherhood prevents a worsening of new mothers' job conditions (the so-called "mommy track"). Our findings are robust to a number of sensitivity checks, among which including controls for partners' characteristics and a proxy for maternal health status.JEL Classification: J13, J22

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A microeconomic analysis of the timing of births

Cited by 143 publications

References 8 publications

Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes

Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes

Differences in Delaying Motherhood Across European Countries: Empirical Evidence from the ECHP

Delayed First Birth and New Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks

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