The career and family choices of women: A dynamic analysis of labor force participation, schooling, marriage, and fertility decisions

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-399

  Sheran, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of gender; Fertility; Marriage; Time allocation and labor supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347335683     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

References (99)

1. Ashenfelter, O., Harmon, C., Oosterbeek, H., 2000. A review of the estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias. Working paper 7457. NBER
2. Ashenfelter, O., Rouse, C., 1998. Schooling, intelligence, and income in America: Cracks in the Bell curve. Working paper 407. Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section
3. Ashraf J. Differences in returns to education: An analysis by race. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 53 3 (1994) 281-290
4. Bachrach C.A. Contraceptive practice among American women, 1973-1982. Family Planning Perspectives 16 (1984) 253-259
5. Baum C.L. The effect of work interruptions on women's wages. Labour 16 1 (2002) 1-37
6. Becker G. A theory of marriage: Part I. Journal of Political Economy 82 (1973) 511-526
7. Becker G., Landes E., and Michael R. An economic analysis of marital instability. Journal of Political Economy 85 (1977) 1141-1187
8. Belman D., and Heywood J. Sheepskin effects in the returns to education: An examination of women and minorities. Review of Economics and Statistics 73 (1991) 720-724
9. Bennett N., Bloom D., and Craig P. The divergence of black and white marriage patterns. American Journal of Sociology 95 3 (1989) 692-722
10. Berger M., and Black D. Child care subsidies, quality of care, and the labor supply of low-income, single mothers. Review of Economics and Statistics 74 4 (1992) 635-642
11. Berkovec J., and Stern S. Job exit behavior of older men. Econometrica 59 1 (1991) 189-210
12. Berndt E., Hall H., Hall R., and Hausman J. Estimation and inference in nonlinear structural models. Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 4 (1974) 653-666
13. Blackburn M., Bloom D., and Neumark D. Fertility timing, wages, and human capital. Journal of Population Economics 6 1 (1993) 1-30
14. Bowen W.G., and Finegan T.A. The Economics of Labor Force Participation (1969), Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton
15. Brien M. Racial differences in marriage and the role of marriage markets. Journal of Human Resources 32 4 (1997) 741-778
16. Brien M., Lillard L., and Waite L. Interrelated family-building behaviors: Implications of cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing. Demography 36 4 (1999) 535-551
17. Brien M., Lillard L., and Stern S. Cohabitation, marriage and divorce in a model of match quality. International Economic Review 47 2 (2006) 451-494
18. Browning M. Children and household economic behavior. Journal of Economic Literature 30 (1992) 1434-1475
19. Browning M., Burguignon F., Chiappori P.A., and Lechene V. Income and outcomes: A structural model of intrahousehold allocations. Journal of Political Economy 102 (1994) 1067-1096
20. Burt M.R. Access to and utilization of preventative services: Implications for nonmarital childbearing. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 189-199
21. Cain G. Labor Force Participation of Married Women (1966), Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago
22. Cain G., and Dooley M. Estimation of a model of labor supply, fertility, and wages of married women. Journal of Political Economy 84 (1976) S179-S199
23. Card, D., 1998. The causal effect of education on earnings. Working paper 2. Center for Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley
24. Caucutt E., Guner N., and Knowles J. Why do women wait? Matching, wage inequality, and the incentives for fertility delay. Review of Economic Dynamics 5 4 (2002) 815-855
25. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), 2002. National Vital Statistics Reports, 52 (10) (Atlanta, GA: CDC)
26. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), 2004. Use of contraception and use of family planning services in the United States: 1982-2002. Advance Data, 350 (Atlanta, GA: CDC)
27. Cherlin A. The effect of children on marital dissolution. Demography 14 (1977) 265-272
28. Cherlin A. Remarriage as an incomplete institution. American Journal of Sociology 84 (1978) 634-650
29. Conesa, J., 2000. Educational attainment and timing of fertility decisions. Unpublished paper. Universitat de Barcelona and CREB
30. Connelly R. The effect of child care costs on married women's labor force participation. Review of Economics and Statistics 74 1 (1992) 83-90
31. Cooksey E.C. Factors in the resolution of adolescent premarital pregnancies. Demography 27 2 (1990) 207-218
32. Eckstein Z., and Wolpin K. Dynamic labour force participation of married women and endogenous work experience. Review of Economic Studies 56 (1989) 375-390
33. Engers M., and Stern S. Long-term care and family bargaining. International Economic Review 43 1 (2002) 73-114
34. Epstein E., and Guttman R. Mate selection in man: Evidence, theory and outcome. Social Biology 31 (1984) 243-278
35. Fernandez R., Fogli A., and Olivetti C. Mothers and sons: Preference formation and female labor force dynamics. Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 4 (2004) 1249-1299
36. Fraker T., Moffitt R., and Wolf D. Effective tax rates and guarantees in the AFDC program, 1967-1982. Journal of Human Resources 20 (1985) 251-263
37. Friedberg L. Did unilateral divorce raise divorce rates? Evidence from panel data. American Economic Review 88 3 (1998) 608-627
38. Greenwood J., Guner N., and Knowles J. More on marriage, fertility, and the distribution of income. International Economic Review 44 3 (2003) 827-862
39. Han, W., Waldfogel, J., 1998. Child care and women's employment. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, IL
40. Haurin D. Women's labor market reactions to family disruptions. Review of Economics and Statistics 71 (1989) 54-61
41. Hausman J. Labor supply. In: Aaron H., and Pechman J. (Eds). How Taxes Affect Economic Behavior (1981), The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC 27-72
42. Heaton T.B. Time-related determinants of marital dissolution. Journal of Marriage and the Family 53 (1991) 285-295
43. Heckman J. Shadow prices, market wages and labor supply. Econometrica 42 (1974) 679-694
44. Heckman J. Sample selection bias as a specification error: An application to estimation of female labor supply functions. In: Smith J. (Ed). Female Labor Supply (1980), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
45. Heckman J., and Singer B. A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data. Econometrica 52 2 (1984) 271-320
46. Hogan D.P., Astone N.M., and Kitagawa E.M. Social and environmental factors influencing contraceptive use among black adolescents. Family Planning Perspectives 17 4 (1985) 165-194
47. Hotz V.J., and Miller R. An empirical analysis of life cycle fertility and female labor supply. Econometrica 56 (1988) 91-118
48. Hutchens R. Changes in AFDC tax rates, 1967-1971. Journal of Human Resources 13 (1978) 60-74
49. Johnson R. Religious Assortative Mating in the United States (1980), Oxford Univ. Press, New York
50. Johnson W., and Skinner J. Labor supply and marital separation. American Economic Review 76 (1986) 455-469
51. Johnson W., and Skinner J. Accounting for changes in the labor supply of recently divorced women. Journal of Human Resources 23 (1988) 417-436
52. Jones E., and Forrest J. Underreporting of abortion in surveys of US women: 1976-1985. Demography 29 1 (1992) 113-126
53. Jones, L., Manuelli, R., McGrattan, E., 2003. Why are married women working so much? Staff report 217. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Research Department
54. Keane M., and Wolpin K. The career decisions of young men. Journal of Political Economy 105 3 (1997) 473-522
55. Keane M., and Wolpin K. Estimating welfare effects consistent with forward-looking behavior, Part II: Empirical results. Journal of Human Resources 37 3 (2002) 600-622
56. Klerman J., and Leibowitz A. The work-employment distinction among new mothers. Journal of Human Resources 29 2 (1994) 277-303
57. Koo H., and Janowitz B. Interrelationships between fertility and marital dissolution: Results of a simultaneous logit model. Demography 20 (1983) 129-145
58. Lehrer E.L., and Nerlove M. Female labor force behavior and fertility in the United States. Annual Review of Sociology 12 (1986) 181-204
59. Lichter D.T., LeCleve F.B., and McLaughlin D.K. Local marriage markets and the marital behavior of black and white women. American Journal of Sociology 96 4 (1991) 843-867
60. Light A., and Ureta M. Early-career work experience and gender wage differentials. Journal of Labor Economics 13 1 (1995) 121-154
61. Lillard L. Simultaneous equations for hazards: Marriage duration and fertility timing. Journal of Econometrics 56 (1993) 189-217
62. Lillard L., and Waite L. A joint model of marital childbearing and marital disruption. Demography 30 4 (1993) 653-681
63. Lillard L., Brien M., and Waite L. Premarital cohabitation and subsequent marital dissolution: A matter of self-selection?. Demography 32 4 (1995) 437-457
64. Mare R., and Winship C. Socioeconomic change and the decline of marriage for black and whites. In: Jencks C., and Peterson P. (Eds). The Urban Underclass (1991), The Brookings Institute, Washington, DC
65. McElroy M. The joint determination of household membership and market work: The case of young men. Journal of Labor Economics 3 (1985) 293-316
66. McElroy, M., 1994. Bargaining over the core in marriage markets. Unpublished manuscript. Duke University
67. McElroy M., and Horney M.J. Nash-bargained household decisions: Towards a generalized theory of demand. International Economic Review 22 (1981) 333-349
68. McKinnish T., Sanders S., and Smith J. Estimates of effective guarantees and tax rates in the AFDC program for the post-OBRA period. Journal of Human Resources 34 2 (1999) 312-345
69. Mincer J. Labor force participation of married women. In: Lewis H.G. (Ed). Aspects of Labor Economics (1962), Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ
70. Mincer J. Market prices, opportunity costs, and income effects. In: Christ C. (Ed). Measurement in Economics (1963), Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford
71. Mincer J., and Ofek H. Interrupted work careers: Depreciation and restoration of human capital. Journal of Human Resources 17 1 (1982) 3-24
72. Moffitt R. Cumulative effective tax rates and guarantees in low-income transfer programs. Journal of Human Resources 14 (1979) 122-129
73. Moffitt R. Profiles of fertility, labour supply, and wages of married women: A complete life-cycle model. Review of Economic Studies 52 (1984) 263-278
74. Moore K.A. Nonmarital childbearing in the United States. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD v-xxii
75. Mroz T. The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica 55 4 (1985) 765-799
76. Mullin, C., Wang, P., 2002. The timing of childbearing among heterogeneous women in dynamic general equilibrium. Working paper No. 9231. NBER
77. Nakamura A., and Nakamura M. The econometrics of female labor supply and children. Econometrics Review 11 1 (1992) 1-71
78. Nakonezny P., Shull R., and Rodgers J. Divorce rate across the 50 states and its relation to income, education, and religiosity. Journal of Marriage and the Family 57 (1995) 477-488
79. O'Connell M. Maternity leave arrangements: 1961-1985. Work and Family Patterns of American Women (1990), US Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 11-57 Current Population Reports, Series P-23, No. 165
80. Orbeta, A., 2005. Children and the labor force participation and earnings of parents in the Philippines. Discussion paper No. 30. ADB Institute
81. Pencavel J. Assortative mating by schooling and the work behavior of wives and husbands. American Economic Review 88 2 (1998) 326-329
82. Ribar D. A structural model of child care and the labor supply of married women. Journal of Labor Economics 13 3 (1995) 558-597
83. Rosenzweig M., and Wolpin K. Life-cycle labor supply and fertility: Causal inferences from household models. Journal of Political Economy 88 2 (1980) 328-348
84. Rust J. Optimal replacement of GMC bus engines: An empirical model of Harold Zurcher. Econometrica 55 (1987) 999-1035
85. Ryder N.B. Changes in parity orientation from 1970 to 1975. In: Hendershot G.E., and Placek P.J. (Eds). Predicting Fertility (1981), Lexington Books, Lexington, MA
86. Schultz T.P. The influence of fertility on labor supply of married women: Simultaneous equation estimates. In: Ehrenberg R. (Ed). Research in Labor Economics, vol. 2 (1978), JAI Press, Greenwich, CT
87. Stephen E.H., Rindfuss R.R., and Bean F.D. Racial differences in contraceptive choice: Complexity and implications. Demography 25 1 (1988) 53-70
88. Stinebrickner, T., 1996. A dynamic discrete choice model of teacher attrition. PhD dissertation. University of Virginia
89. Swann C. Welfare reform when recipients are forward-looking. Journal of Human Resources 40 1 (2005) 31-56
90. Torres A., and Singh S. Contraceptive practice among Hispanic adolescents. Family Planning Perspectives 18 4 (1986) 193-194
91. Upchurch, D., Lillard, L., Panis, W., 1999. The impact of nonmarital childbearing on subsequent marital formation and dissolution. Paper prepared for the Conference on Nonmarital Fertility, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison
92. US Bureau of the Census. What does it cost to mind our preschoolers?. Current Population Reports, Series P70-52, Household Economic Studies: September 1995 (1995), US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
93. van der Klaauw W. Female labour supply and marital status decisions: A life-cycle model. Review of Economic Studies 63 (1996) 199-235
94. Waite L., and Lillard L. Children and marital disruption. American Journal of Sociology 96 (1991) 930-953
95. Waite L., and Stolzenberg R. Intended childbearing and labor force participation of young women: Insights from nonrecursive models. American Sociological Review 41 (1976) 235-252
96. Waite L., Haggstrom G., and Kanouse D. Parenthood and marital stability. American Sociological Review 50 (1985) 850-857
97. Willis R. What have we learned from the economics of the family?. American Economic Review 77 2 (1987) 68-81
98. Wilson W.J., and Neckerman K.M. Poverty and family structure: The widening gap between evidence and public policy issues. In: Danziger S.D., and Weinberg D.H. (Eds). Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't (1986), Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge 232-259
99. Wolpin K. An estimable dynamic stochastic model of fertility and child mortality. Journal of Political Economy 92 (1984) 852-874