Female jobs and fertility: long-term experimental evidence from Ethiopian factories
Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 12 PM to 1 PM
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- Brown University, Mencoff Hall
1 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02912 (Providence) - Tags
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Abstract: We conducted an experiment with multiple factories in Ethiopia to test the widespread hypothesis that formal employment among women reduces fertility. Tracking respondents over eight years, we find that women who were randomly offered a job had more children than the control group. The effec
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