Replication data for: Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Orazio Attanasio; Hamish Low; Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

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Project Citation: 

Attanasio, Orazio, Low, Hamish, and Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia. Replication data for: Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2008. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113258V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper studies the life-cycle labor supply of three cohorts of American women, born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. We focus on the increase in labor supply of mothers between the 1940s and 1950s cohorts. We construct a lifecycle model of female participation and savings, and calibrate the model to match the behavior of the middle cohort. We investigate which changes in the determinants of labor supply account for the increases in participation early in the life-cycle observed for the youngest cohort. A combination of a reduction in the cost of children alongside a reduction in the wage-gender gap is needed. (JEL D91, J16, J22, J31)

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms PSID and CEX; Survey Data
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      L31 Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1972 – 1995
Universe:  View help for Universe Cohorts of women born between 1934 and 1938, 1944 and 1948 and 1954 a 1958.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source PSID, CEX
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Individual,

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