ERF 27th Annual Conference
Impact of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in Algeria
No.
ERF27_34
Publisher
ERF
Date
May, 2021
Topic
J. Labor and Demographic Economics
This paper examines the impact of fertility on women's participation in the labor market in Algeria. Using repeated cross-section cross sectional data derived from Algeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2018-2019 witch is a part from an international survey initiative to monitor the situation of children and women we estimate a Marginal Average Treatment Effect using the method proposed by proposed by Heckman and Vytlacil ( 2001, 2005, 2007b). Our treatment variable is the number of child given by woman. To identify the causal effect, we proposed an empirical approach based on natural experiments and exploits family planning as sources of exogenous variation in the number of children (Bloom et al. (2009), Bailey (2006), (Bailey et al. (2012). Our result suggested that in general the impact on fertility on women labor participation is significant by heterogeneous through the group of age.
Research Associates
Ali Souag
Assistant Professor, University of Mascara, Algeria
Research Fellows
El Mouhoub Mouhoud
Professor of Economics, Univeristy of Paris Dauphine