Close to Home: A Simultaneous Equations Model of the Relationship Between Child Care Accessibility and Female Labor Force Participation

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris M. Herbst ◽  
Burt S. Barnow
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Simultaneous Equations ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Simultaneous Equations Model ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Women’s Employment and Fertility: A Welfare Regime Paradox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liana Christin Landivar ◽  
Carter T. Butts
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Employment Rates

In this article we methodologically assess the paradox posited by other researchers of fertility: namely, why fertility is so much lower in the familialistic countries of Southern and Eastern Europe. We examine the relationship between individual attributes, aggregate female labor force participation, child care enrollment, family leave, and individual fertility in twenty developed countries using a hierarchical Bayesian model. Our results indicate that women's full-time employment and country-level employment rates decrease expected fertility in contrast to recent research which shows a reversal in the negative association between total fertility rates and female labor force participation during the 1980s. However, the positive association between child care enrollment and fertility indicates that child care services might mitigate some of the decline in fertility, possibly by reducing labor force exit among women with young children.

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