オカムラ カズアキ   OKAMURA Kazuaki
  岡村 和明
   所属   広島修道大学  経済科学部
   職種   教授
発表年月日 2020/08
発表テーマ The Effects of the Timing of Childbirth on Female Labour Supply: An Analysis using the Sequential Matching Approach
会議名 Econometric Society and Bocconi University Virtual World Congress
学会区分 国際学会
発表形式 口頭(一般)
単独共同区分 共同
発表者・共同発表者 共著者:Nizamul Islam
概要 This study estimates the effects of childbirth on female labor supply using Japanese data. The original contributions of our study are twofold. First, we include the preference for having children as a time-varying confounding variable in the effects of childbirth on female labor supply. Second, we apply a dynamic version of the sequential matching approach to analyze the causal effects of childbirth on female labor market outcomes. The results show that childbirth decreases current employment outcomes (participation as regular and non-regular workers) and that this decrease is more pronounced among regular workers than non-regular workers. At the time of childbirth, while the negative effects of childbirth on choosing regular work increase when childbirth age is delayed, the negative effects on choosing non-regular work are slightly decreased by delaying the age of childbirth. Regarding future employment outcomes, childbirth does not affect the probability of choosing non-regular work in the next period, regardless of childbirth age. In contrast, delayed childbirth decreases the probability of choosing regular work in the next period significantly.