From: Jobs and kids: female employment and fertility in China
Variables | Mean1 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Employment status2 | Not employed | Employed | ||
Sample size | N = 1514 | N = 841 | ||
Fertility variables | ||||
Preferred number of children | 1.768 | (0.816) | 1.378 | (0.695) |
Actual number of children | 1.650 | (0.803) | 1.202 | (0.632) |
Instrumental variables3 | ||||
A bus stop in the village or neighborhood | 0.602 | 0.747 | ||
Other explanatory variables | ||||
Household annual income (RMB) | 18408.270 | (26224.350) | 31250.620 | (32105.140) |
Ethnic minority (wife and/or husband) | 0.156 | 0.102 | ||
Age | 40.546 | (7.679) | 38.960 | (7.310) |
Married | 0.982 | 0.967 | ||
The first child is a son | 0.463 | 0.477 | ||
Wife has siblings | 0.967 | 0.956 | ||
Husband has siblings | 0.930 | 0.888 | ||
Smoking | 0.024 | 0.004 | ||
Drinking alcohol | 0.069 | 0.124 | ||
Health insurance | 0.452 | 0.591 | ||
Education | ||||
Less than primary school | 0.203 | 0.050 | ||
Primary school | 0.235 | 0.096 | ||
Lower middle school | 0.409 | 0.380 | ||
Upper middle school | 0.126 | 0.168 | ||
Technical school | 0.023 | 0.164 | ||
College | 0.003 | 0.141 | ||
Occupation | ||||
Worker | N/A | 0.585 | ||
Professional | N/A | 0.166 | ||
Manager | N/A | 0.040 | ||
Staff | N/A | 0.130 | ||
Other occupations | N/A | 0.078 | ||
Health status | ||||
Excellent | 0.119 | 0.180 | ||
Good | 0.542 | 0.522 | ||
Fair | 0.283 | 0.282 | ||
Poor | 0.057 | 0.017 | ||
Village or neighborhood population (in 1000) | 3.188 | (4.106) | 5.540 | (8.125) |
Han nationality allowed to have two children if the first child is female | 0.469 | 0.233 | ||
Receiving a subsidy if having one child | 0.668 | 0.705 | ||
Urban | 0.050 | 0.439 | ||
Province | ||||
Heilongjiang | 0.147 | 0.112 | ||
Liaoning | 0.116 | 0.136 | ||
Jiangsu | 0.075 | 0.149 | ||
Shandong | 0.079 | 0.131 | ||
Henan | 0.143 | 0.069 | ||
Hubei | 0.104 | 0.102 | ||
Hunan | 0.131 | 0.067 | ||
Guangxi | 0.101 | 0.128 | ||
Guizhou | 0.106 | 0.107 |