TY  - GEN
AU  - Cavalcanti, Tiago
AU  - Fernandes, Leticia
AU  - Rachter, Laísa
AU  - Santos, Cezar
TI  - Women and Men at Work: Fertility, Occupational Choice and Development
PY  - 2022
Y1  - 2022/07/26
DO  - 10.18235/0004389
AB  - We investigate how changes in barriers to female labor force participation and in the child penalty affect occupational decisions, fertility and income. We build a general equilibrium model of occupational choice with men and women, human capital investment and fertility. We fit the model to the US and India. Changing gender barriers account for 31% of US growth between 1960 and 2010 (4.1% for India in 1983-2004). The implications of these barriers for the welfare of female workers with children were even larger, with lower child penalty alone increasing the welfare of this group by
7% in the US.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0004389
ER  -