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Title: Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital
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Blackburn, McKinley L. Bloom, David E. Neumark, David B. |
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Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital Journal of Population Economics 6,1 (February 1993):1-30. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7757p8352823q02/ Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Childbearing; Fertility; First Birth; Human Capital Theory; Life Cycle Research; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact based on a simple life-cycle model of human capital investment and timing of first birth. The model yields conditions (that are plausibly satisfied) under which late childbearers will tend to invest more heavily in human capital than early childbearers. The empirical analysis finds results consistent with the higher wages of late childbearers arising primarily through greater measurable human capital investment. Revised, July 1992. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the March 1989 annual meetings of the Population Association of America. |
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Blackburn, McKinley L., David E. Bloom and David B. Neumark. "Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital." Journal of Population Economics 6,1 (February 1993):1-30.
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