TY - JOUR
T1 - Reproductive Burden and Its Impact on Female Labor Market Outcomes in India
T2 - Evidence from Longitudinal Analyses
AU - Tiwari, Chhavi
AU - Goli, Srinivas
AU - Rammohan, Anu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - We use nationally representative data from two waves of the Indian Human Development Survey to examine the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behavior in influencing female labor market outcomes. Our multivariate regression estimates show that an increase in the number of children reduces labor force participation and earnings. We further investigated the impact of fertility changes on transitions from the labor market. The results show that women who had more than three children in both rounds of the survey had a 3.5% points higher probability of exiting from the labor market than their counterparts with two or fewer children net of other socio-demographic factors. Disaggregated analyses by caste, economic, educational status, and region show that the probability of dropping out of the labor market due to fertility changes varies by region and is greater for non-poor and primary to secondary schooling women and those from socially disadvantaged castes than poor, non-educated, and socially advantageous women.
AB - We use nationally representative data from two waves of the Indian Human Development Survey to examine the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behavior in influencing female labor market outcomes. Our multivariate regression estimates show that an increase in the number of children reduces labor force participation and earnings. We further investigated the impact of fertility changes on transitions from the labor market. The results show that women who had more than three children in both rounds of the survey had a 3.5% points higher probability of exiting from the labor market than their counterparts with two or fewer children net of other socio-demographic factors. Disaggregated analyses by caste, economic, educational status, and region show that the probability of dropping out of the labor market due to fertility changes varies by region and is greater for non-poor and primary to secondary schooling women and those from socially disadvantaged castes than poor, non-educated, and socially advantageous women.
KW - Female labor-force participation
KW - India
KW - Reproductive burden
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141108147&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11113-022-09730-6
DO - 10.1007/s11113-022-09730-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141108147
SN - 0167-5923
VL - 41
SP - 2493
EP - 2529
JO - Population Research and Policy Review
JF - Population Research and Policy Review
IS - 6
ER -