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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Fertility and Female Work Force Participation in Bangladesh: Causality and Cointegration
Autores: | Hossain,   Mohammad; Tisdell,   Clement A.
Data: | 2011-06-06
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Fertility; Female Labor Force Participation; Causality; Labor and Human Capital; C32; J13; J22.
Resumo: | This paper examines the causal links between fertility and female labor force participation in Bangladesh over the period 1974-2000 by specifying a bivariate and several trivariate models in a vector error correction framework.  The three trivariate models alternatively include average age at first marriage for females, per capita GDP and infant mortality rate, which control for the effects of other socio-economic factors on fertility and female labor force participation.  All the specified models indicate an inverse long-run relationship between fertility and female labor force participation.  While the bivariate model also indicates bidirectional causality, the multivariate models confirm only a unidirectional causality – from labor force participation to fertility.  Further, per capita GDP and infant mortality rate appear to Granger-cause both fertility and female labor force participation.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

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ISSN: 1442 8563

http://purl.umn.edu/106947

Relação:

University of Queensland&gt;School of Economics&gt;Social Economics, Policy and Development Working Papers

Social Economics, Policy and Development

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