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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "Congenital Disability and Parents’ Labor Supply: Evidence from the Zika Virus Outbreak".

Expone: Joao Garcia, Profesor Asistente USACH.

Co-autores: Marcelo Mello, Rafael Latham-Proença y Joana Silva.

Abstract: Having a child with a severe congenital disability deeply impacts family life, yet there is limited evidence on how these shocks affect economic outcomes. We study a shock to disability incidence caused by the Zika Virus epidemic in Brazil, which caused thousands of children to be born with microcephaly. Using data on the universe of births and formal employment linked to a sample of poor mothers, we find that, compared to controls, mothers of Zika-affected infants experience a 66% larger motherhood penalty in the formal labor market. Informal employment does not compensate for this difference. We show suggestive evidence of significant disemployment effects of social security benefits, but effects are still significant for non-recipients. In contrast, father’s labor outcomes were unaffected. We also find lower fertility for affected families as well as local spillovers, but no effect on marriage dissolution.

Link al artículo.

El formato será presencial en la sala T-1605.

Saludos cordiales,

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