Effects of Employment on Fertility after the First Birth

就业对第一胎出生后生育率的影响

• 批准号: 6938748
• 负责人: Sarah R Hayford
• 金额: $ 4.21万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6938748
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); birth; clinical research; employment of women; female; fertility; human data; human population dynamics; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; postdoctoral investigator; racial /ethnic difference; statistics /biometry; training level; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this project is to analyze the relationship between women's employment after the first birth and the transition to the second birth, conditional on future fertility expectations. The project is motivated by the search to understand the determinants of fertility in a low-fertility context. Women's labor force participation has been proposed as a primary factor influencing the number of births, but both individual and macro-level characteristics mediate the negative relationship between employment and fertility. This project tests hypotheses regarding the magnitude and direction of the effect of employment after the first birth on women's likelihood of having a second child. In addition, it explores variation in this relationship by race, marital status, and education level. The analysis uses event history methods to estimate the effects of covariates on the hazard of second birth, as well as statistical techniques to account for mutual causation between fertility, fertility intentions, and labor force participation.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目的是分析妇女在生育第一胎后的就业与向二胎过渡之间的关系，条件是未来的生育预期。这个项目的动机是在低生育率的背景下寻找了解生育率的决定因素。妇女的劳动力参与被认为是影响出生人数的主要因素，但个人和宏观层面的特征都介导了就业与生育率之间的负相关关系。该项目测试了关于第一胎后就业对妇女生育第二胎可能性影响的幅度和方向的假设。此外，它还探讨了种族、婚姻状况和教育水平对这种关系的影响。该分析使用事件历史方法来估计协变量对二胎风险的影响，以及统计技术来解释生育率、生育意图和劳动力参与之间的相互因果关系。