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Title: Does temperature affect fertility via the economy? Elaborating on the role of female labor supply and productivity
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: Women are still devoting more time than men to child-rearing. That makes women's time spent at work crucial for their fertility decisions. At the same time, the global temperature has been rising, affecting labor supply and productivity. In this study, we investigate whether temperature influences fertility through its effect on the female labor supply (num-ber of hours worked) and productivity. We also test the adaptation hypothesis. According to the latter, couples' fertility in warmer climates may be less affected by higher temperatures. We employ individual-level data from the IPUMS-USA for the period 2002-2019 and temperature data from the World Bank between 1901 and 2001. The obtained results show that temperature affects fertility mainly in the category of women who work full-time in jobs with lower educational demands. We found no effect on fertility for women of either higher or lower education, who work part-time. We also found some evidence in favor of the adaptation hypothesis.
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Authors: Bampinas, Georgios; Mavropoulos, Georgios
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality
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