Title
The Labor Supply of Married Men: A Switching Regressions Model
Author(s)
Michael R. Ransom Michael Ransom (University of Arizona)
Abstract
According to the family utility function approach, the labor supply functions of married men should differ according to whether or not their wives also work. In this paper I explicitly model the switching nature of labor supply while also accounting for the endogeneity of the labor force participation decision of the wife, using an endogenous switching regressions model based on the quadratic family utility function. The model is estimated from a cross-section of 1210 married couples from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
Creation Date
1985-06
Section URL ID
IRS
Paper Number
191
URL
https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01qr46r082b/1/191.pdf
File Function
Jel
C99
Keyword(s)
labor supply, switching regression
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false
Series
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