The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Summary statistics: women aged 21–35 years

	1 ⁺ sample		2 ⁺ sample		3 ⁺ sample
	Mean	St. dev.	Mean	St. dev.	Mean	St. dev.
FLFP	0.129	(0.335)	0.116	(0.320)	0.0978	(0.297)
Number of children	2.627	(1.431)	3.110	(1.279)	3.917	(1.131)
Three-and-more-children indicator	0.447	(0.497)	0.579	(0.494)	1	(0)
Four-and-more-children indicator	0.235	(0.424)	0.305	(0.460)	0.526	(0.499)
Firstborn son indicator	0.514	(0.500)	0.509	(0.500)	0.497	(0.500)
Second-born son indicator	0.510	(0.500)	0.510	(0.500)	0.502	(0.500)
Two-son indicator	0.260	(0.439)	0.260	(0.439)	0.255	(0.436)
Two-daughter indicator	0.241	(0.428)	0.241	(0.428)	0.257	(0.437)
Age	28.88	(3.967)	29.69	(3.685)	30.53	(3.376)
Age at first birth	19.98	(3.462)	19.25	(3.096)	18.49	(2.745)
Years of schooling	6.715	(4.267)	6.023	(4.076)	4.810	(3.727)
Presence of relatives in the family	0.0893	(0.285)	0.0896	(0.286)	0.0962	(0.295)
Incidence of zero in nonlabor income	0.812	(0.391)	0.809	(0.393)	0.807	(0.394)
Logarithm of nonlabor income	2.581	(5.426)	2.616	(5.449)	2.622	(5.427)
Observations	56845		43868		25399

Note: I report the mean of each variable with the standard deviation in parentheses.
The variable “age at first birth” is measured by assuming that matching of the women with their respected children is perfect. Therefore, this variable is measured by error.