CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Tahmisoglu, Yigit |
|---|---|
| Title | Investigating the Impact of Childbirth on Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Natural Experiment Using Twin Births |
| Summary | In this study, I investigate the influence of the number of young children in a household on women's employment in Turkey, using microdata from the 2018 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). By employing a natural experimental framework, I implement the instrumental variable methodology, using the quasi-random occurrence of twin births during a woman's initial childbirth as an instrumental variable for the number of young children in the household to estimate the causal effect. My findings reveal an inverse causal correlation between female employment and the number of children. Specifically, each additional child under the age of four results in a decrease in a woman's employment probability by 11.6 percentage points. A smaller yet still significant effect is observed from the number of children beyond this age bracket. When controlling for place of residence, the impact escalates to a decrease of 15.7 percentage points for women in urban areas. Upon disaggregating the sample of women into distinct educational categories, the effect of each additional child younger than four is associated with a statistically insignificant 70 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of employment for women with higher education. The impact is lesser and again statistically insignificant for women with primary or secondary education levels. |
| Supervisor | Lieli, Robert |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/tahmisoglu_yigit.pdf |
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