781 National Tax Journal Vol. LIX, No. 4 December 2006 Abstract We examine the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on labor supply, comparing outcomes in Wisconsin, which supplements the federal EITC for families with three children, to outcomes in states that do not supplement the federal EITC. Relative to previous studies, our cross–state comparison examines a larger difference in E...

Studying the impact of fertility on female labor force participation and the form that this participation takes is complicated by the fact that both fertility and participation are potentially endogenous household decisions, requiring simultaneous estimation. Such estimation is further complicated by the need to find appropriate instruments for fertility. Moreover, age at marriage (or the proba...

The Roy model discussed here can be applied to situations where we have individuals selecting into one of two or more sectors. Examples would include, the education level choice (High School vs College) and labor participation choice (join the work force or not, especially for in the context of female labor supply). We shall examine the labor participation choice and applications of the Roy mod...

This study seeks to quantify determinants, and costs, of the labor—force participation of married women. We use demographic and earnings data from the Health and Retirement Study. The earnings data constitute an unusually long panel but have the defect of lacking corresponding reports on work hours. By using a highly structured model and concentrating on the participation margin, we nevertheles...

The demographic composition of the U.S. labor force has changed dramatically over the past several decades. My Dissertation examines the age distribution, the supply of skills, and the participation of women in the workforce. The …rst chapter postulates a connection between the age distribution and the business cycle. I develop an overlapping generations model featuring search frictions and pro...

Trends in female labor force participation rates, female earnings as a percent of male earnings, and women’s pension coverage all point to improvements in the economic status of women that have taken place in recent decades. In the years ahead, more women will be receiving Social Security and pension benefits based on their own work histories and, in the aggregate, are likely to have higher rea...

I document differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. In the U.S. the female labor force participation was 69% by 1990, while in Brazil and Mexico was 39% and 37%, respectively. Females began to participate more in the labor market of these countries when more households acquired access to basic infrastructure and when distortive ...