Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of...

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Volume:	107
Main Author:	Petter Lundborg Erik Plug Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	NASHVILLE American Economic Association 01.06.2017 AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
published in:	The American economic review Vol. 107; no. 6; pp. 1611 - 1637
Related:	Behavioural Economics Human Capital
Data of publication:	20170601
ISSN:	0002-8282 1944-7981
EISSN:	1944-7981
Discipline:	Economics Law
Subjects:	Shorter Papers Economics and Econometrics Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Employment - statistics & numerical data Women Income - statistics & numerical data United States Humans Reproductive Behavior Depression Mothers Divorce Fertilization in Vitro Fertility Employment - economics Denmark Female Women, Working Twins Family planning Parent and child Analysis Childlessness Children Social aspects Child care Health technology assessment Samhällsvetenskap Economics and Business Nationalekonomi Ekonomi och näringsliv MOTHERHOOD DIVORCE NATURAL EXPERIMENT TWIN BIRTHS FAMILY GAP FERTILITY
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