We estimate the effect of family size on various measures of labor market outcomes over the whole career until retirement, using instrumental variables estimation in data from Norwegian administrative registers. Parents' number of children is instrumented with the sex mix of their first two children. We find that having additional children causes sizable reductions in labor supply for women, wh...

Eighteenth-century American farms were family owned, family operated, and selfsufficient. At the same time, the fertility of the population inhabiting those farms was extremely high. These two characteristics of the rural population were mutually reinforcing. Selfsufficiency meant an absence of well-developed markets that, in turn, required reliance upon family-based mechanisms of reciprocity t...

The McElroy-Horney Nash-bargaining model of family demand behavior relaxes the restriction that nonearned income of husband and wife has the identical effect on family labor supply and commodity demands. This restriction of the neoclassical model offamily behavior is tested for the determination of husband and wife labor supply andfertility based on the 1981 Socioeconomic Survey of Thailand. Th...

Labor supply functions for married men and women are formulated as a dynamic simultaneous equations ystem, which is estimated using panel data. Controlling for fixed individual effects allows marginal labor supply responses to be disentangled from permanent patterns in hours worked ue to assortative mating. The results suggest hat the labor supply of husbands and wives without pre-school childr...

Mattias Engdahl, Mathilde Godard and Oskar Nordström Skans Engdahl is a researcher at the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market Education Policy (IFAU) in Uppsala, Sweden. CNRS Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, LEDa Paris, France. professor economics Uppsala University, He also affiliated with University Oslo, Norway; IFAU Sweden IZA Bonn, Germany.

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non-separability and asset accumulation deci...

In this paper, we analyze family labor supply in urban China using discretized neo-classical labor supply model, where we take into account the unobserved heterogeneity of each spouse and their correlation, unobservability and measurement errors of the wage rates, and the correlation of the wage and preferences. The correlation of preference between spouses is also taken into account. Elasticit...