Female Labor Force Intermittency and Current Earnings: A Switching Regression Model with Unknown Sample Selection

A Bayesian Nominal Regression Model with Random Effects for Analysing Tehran Labor Force Survey Data

Large survey data are often accompanied by sampling weights that reflect the inequality probabilities for selecting samples in complex sampling. Sampling weights act as an expansion factor that, by scaling the subjects, turns the sample into a representative of the community. The quasi-maximum likelihood method is one of the approaches for considering sampling weights in the frequentist framewo...

To Work or Not To Work? Male Earnings and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Despite economic growth, fertility reductions, and increases in female educational attainment, overall female labor force participation in India declined from 35 percent to 27 percent between 1999 and 2012. I examine the degree to which this puzzling decline can be attributed to an increase in earnings of married males. I first show that between 1999 and 2012, districts that experience a relati...

Censored Regression, Sample Selection, Endogenous Switching, and Treatment-Effect Regression Models

Truncated and censored regression models are useful when the dependent variable is observed in some ranges but not in others. A classical example is Tobin’s (1958) study of household expenditures, in which expenditures on durable goods were seen to generally increase with income, but a non-trivial number of households had no expenditures on durable goods. The problem, in this case, is how to mo...

House prices and female labor force participation

Is there a causal connection between house prices and labor force participation of married women? The simple correlation between house prices and married women’s labor force participation across U.S. metro areas is positive. Plausible, informal arguments have been advanced to support causation in either direction: prices raising participation (negative income effects of higher house prices lead...

Bayesian Analysis of Sample Selection and Endogenous Switching Regression Models with Random Coefficients Via MCMC Methods