Does female employment reduce fertility rates? Evidence from the Senegalese horticultural export sector
| dc.creator | Van den Broeck, Goedele | |
| dc.creator | Maertens, Miet | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:45:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:19:14Z | |
| dc.description | The recent horticultural export boom in Senegal has created new off-farm wage employment opportunities for the rural population, especially for women. We hypothesise that female wage employment may lower fertility rates through an income effect, an empowerment effect and a substitution effect, and address this question empirically using household survey data and two different regression techniques (a Difference-in-Differences estimator and an Instrumental Variable approach). We find that besides education, female employment has a significant negative effect on fertility rates. Reducing fertility rates is considered as a prerequisite for reaching the MDGs, and our finding implies that the horticultural export boom and associated employment may indirectly contribute to this. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.182715 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182715/files/Van_den_Broeck-Does_female_employment_reduce_fertility_rates_Evidence-487_a.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182715 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/597870 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182715 | |
| dc.title | Does female employment reduce fertility rates? Evidence from the Senegalese horticultural export sector | |
| dc.type | Text |