Analyzing female activity and fertility in Spain through discrete choice models

Abstract

This paper analyses labor force participation and fertility of women in Spain. Using data from the Survey of Active Population (EPA), we investigate how several factors may affect the decisions of participation in the labor market and motherhood. First, we consider both decisions in an independent setting and propose a binary probit for each of them. Then, we take into account that unobservable factors may affect both decisions jointly and estimate a bivariate probit where the dependent variables are participation and fertility. Both models show that participation and fertility are conditioned by socioeconomic variables.

Keywords

• mujer
• mercado de trabajo
• fecundidad
• modelos de elección discreta
• female
• labor market