Marriage, Children, and Labor Supply: Beliefs and Outcomes / Yifan Gong, Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd R. Stinebrickner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gong, Yifan.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Stinebrickner, Ralph.

Stinebrickner, Todd R.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26334.

NBER working paper series no. w26334

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Marriage, Children, and Labor Supply

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing expectations, starting during college, the data details outcomes for ten years after graduation. On average, both male and female college students are well-informed about the future gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an approach for addressing measurement error in survey questions and the recognition that expectations data, along with longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on labor supply.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2019.