I develop a two-period stochastic dynamic programming model to explain the interaction between fertilizer use and off-farm labor supply. I use a well-known sample of farmers in the semi-arid tropics of India to test the model. I find that fertilizer use responds strongly to wages in the village labor market and that irrigation raises fertilizer use, while larger farmers use less fertilizer than...

This paper presents new evidence on the causal link between fertility and female labor supply by focusing how informal employment interacts with maternal supply. We employ an IV strategy based unused data source for twin births in Turkey|a large middle-income country extensive informality. find that, following first birth, declines significantly mothers who drop out of force are mostly informal...

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the role of work-life balance (WLB) as a nonmonetary determinant of retirement transitions, conditional on job attributes such as hours of work, compensation, and benefits. We show that low levels of WLB are significantly associated with subsequent reductions in labor supply for workers ages 51 to 79, and document heterogeneity by gend...

We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using difference-in-difference design and fertility survey with information conception, contraception, labor supply arrangements. Childcare subsidies increased conception decreased contraception—an important mechanism for manipulating fertility. The arc elasticities responses contraception to are 0.65 ...

Abstract This paper analyzed the relationship between Bolsa Família Program (BFP) and labor supply of women in rural areas from Brazil, using Propensity Score Matching (with nearest-neighbor, kernel, IPW criteria), Ordinary Least Squares on treatment (beneficiaries), control (non-beneficiaries) groups with robustness analysis proposed by Oster (2015). The results showed that BFP has an opposite...