Do Labor Market Opportunities Affect Young Women's Work and Family Decisions? Experimental Evidence from India
Do Labor Market Opportunities Affect Young Women's Work and Family Decisions? Experimental Evidence from India
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DOI：
10.1093/qje/qjs002
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Jensen, Robert
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作者：
Jensen, Robert
女性的劳动力市场机会会影响婚姻和生育决定吗？我们提供了三年的招聘服务，帮助随机选择的印度农村的年轻女性在业务流程外包行业找到工作。由于该行业在研究时还很新，人们对这些工作几乎没有认识，这使得我们实际上从农村家庭的角度外生地增加了女性的劳动力机会。我们发现，治疗村的年轻女性在此期间结婚或生孩子的可能性明显降低，而是选择进入劳动力市场或获得更多的学校教育或毕业后培训。女性还表示希望少生孩子，并在一生中更稳定地工作，这与日益增长的职业愿望是一致的。
Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural Indian villages get jobs in the business process outsourcing industry. Because the industry was so new at the time of the study, there was almost no awareness of these jobs, allowing us in effect to exogenously increase women's labor force opportunities from the perspective of rural households. We find that young women in treatment villages were significantly less likely to get married or have children during this period, choosing instead to enter the labor market or obtain more schooling or postschool training. Women also report wanting to have fewer children and to work more steadily throughout their lifetime, consistent with increased aspirations for a career.