Female Labor Supply and Fertility in Iran: A Comparison Between Developed, Semi Developed and Less Developed Regions.
BACKGROUND
Female labor supply has been changed dramatically in the recent yr. In this study, we examined the effects of development on the relationship between fertility and female labor supply.


METHODS
We used data of population and housing census of Iran and estimated three separate models. To do this we employed Logistic Regressions (BLR).


RESULTS
The estimation results of our study showed that there was a negative relationship between fertility rate and female labor supply and there are some differences for this relationship in three models.


CONCLUSIONS
When fertility rate increases, FLS would decreases. In addition, for higher fertility rates, the woman might be forced to work more because of the economic conditions of her family; and negative coefficients of the fertility rate effects on FLS would increase with a diminishing rate.
Dept. of Health Economics and Management, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sara
S
Emamgholipour Sefiddashti
Dept. of Health Economics and Management, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Enayatollah
E
Homaie Rad
Dept. of Health Economics and Management, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohamad
M
Arab
Dept. of Health Management, School of Health Management and Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shima
S
Bordbar
Female labor supply; Fertility; Iran