How can gender discrimination explain fertility behaviors and family-friendly policies? |
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Authors: | Magali Recoules |
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Institution: | (1) Paris School of Economics – University of Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, CES 106-112 boulevard de l’h?pital, 75647 Paris cedex 13, France |
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Abstract: | This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with endogenous
fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare services
are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may explain
differences in household decisions between countries. The solution shows a U-shaped relationship between fertility and gender
discrimination if the quality of childcare services is sufficiently high. In the decreasing part of this U-shaped curve, a
decrease in the discrimination level implies a related increase in fertility, women’s participation in the labor force and
in family-friendly policies. |
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