Fertilidad y resultados laborales: una evidencia causal para Bolivia

Elvis Edison Choque Sanchez

doi:10.4067/S0718-88702023000100003

Authors

Elvis Edison Choque Sanchez Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz-Bolivia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9737-3967

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-88702023000100003

Keywords:

Instrumental variable, fertility, causality, labor results

Abstract

Two econometric models with instrumental variable are used to estimate the causal effect of a marginal increase in the number of sons on female labor outcomes. According to model 2, the negative causal effect of fertility on the probability of working does not change significantly between 2001 (12%) and 2012 (13%), whose results are like that estimated by model 1 for 2016 (14%). Likewise, fertility causes the probability of working part-time to increase by 38% and the level of real income to decrease by Bs. 227 and Bs. 326 according to the 0.5 and 0.8 quantiles respectively for 2012.

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Author Biography

Elvis Edison Choque Sanchez, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz-Bolivia.

Soy investigador Economista con más de dos años de experiencia. Titulado a través de la modalidad: tesis de grado con excelencia de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), La Paz - Bolivia. Trabaje como investigador junior en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) y el Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas (UMSA). He publicado dos artículos de investigación. El primero en el Departamento de Investigación Postgrado e Interacción Social (DIPGIS - UMSA) y, el segundo, en la Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico de la Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo.

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