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Cutting Fertility?
Martin Halla
Harald Mayr
Gerald J. Pruckner
Pilar García-Gómez
其他書名
The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
出版
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
, 2016
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cguvAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to induce non-medically indicated CDs across weekdays. On weekends and public holidays obstetricians' are less likely to induce CDs (due tighter capacity constraints in hospital). On Fridays and other days preceding a holiday, they face an increased incentive to induce CDs (due to their demand for leisure on non-working days).We use high-quality administrative data from Austria. Women giving birth on different weekdays are pre-treatment observationally identical. Our instrumental variable estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment.