Análisis de la actividad femenina y la fecundidad en España mediante modelos de elección discreta

  1. Alonso-Antón, Aurora
  2. Fernández-Sáinz, Ana
  3. Rincón-Diez, Virginia
Journal:
Lecturas de Economía

ISSN: 0120-2596,  2323-0622

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 82

Pages: 127-157

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17533/UDEA.LE.N82A4 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This paper analyses labor force participation and fertility of women in Spain. Using data from the Survey of Active Population (EPA), we investigate how several factors may affect the decisions of participation in the labor market and motherhood. First, we consider both decisions in an independent setting and propose a binary probit for each of them. Then, we take into account that unobservable factors may affect both decisions jointly and estimate a bivariate probit where the dependent variables are participation and fertility. Both models show that participation and fertility are conditioned by socioeconomic variables.

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