Economics: Labor Economics of the Family Economics 541 Reading List PRELIMINARY 1/3/07 Monday, Wednesday 3:30-4:50 Winter 2007 Mary Gates 085 Textbook John Ermisch (2003). An Economic Analysis of the Family. Princeton University Press. General Becker, Gary S. (1991). A Treatise on the Family. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, enlarged edition. Bergstrom, Theodore (1997). A Survey of Theories of the Family. In Mark Rosenzweig and Oded Stark, eds., Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Bergstrom, Theodore (1996). Economics in a Family Way. JEL 34.4, December: 1903-1934. Pollak, Robert A. (1985). A Transaction Cost Approach to Families and Households. JEL 23.2, June: 581-608. Monday, January 9 Introduction: Family Economics and Social Change in Developed Countries 1. Time Allocation and Labor Supply Wednesday, January 11 A. Individual Becker, G. (1965). A Theory of the Allocation of Time. EJ 75: 493-517. Juster, F. T. and F. P. Stafford (1991). The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement. JEL 29, June: 471-522. Biddle, J. and D. Hamermesh (1990). Sleep and the Allocation of Time. JPE 98.5, October: 922-944. Corneo, Giacomo (2005). Work and television. European Journal of Political Economy 21: 99-113. Monday, January 16: MLK DayNo class Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn (2005). Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000. NBER Working Paper No. 11230. [On-line] Lundberg, S. (1988). Labor Supply of Husbands and Wives: A Simultaneous Equations Approach. ReStat., May: 224-235. MaCurdy, T.E. (1981). An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting. JPE 89: 10591085. Shelly Lundberg Savery 227/Raitt 206 543-6149 lundberg@u.
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* Oettinger, Gerald S. (1999). An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Labor Supply of Stadium Vendors, JPE 107:2, April: 360-392. * Farber, Henry S. (2003). Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York Cab Drivers, NBER working paper 9706. [On-line] * Powell, Lisa M. (2002). Joint Labor Supply and Childcare Choice Decisions of Married Mothers, JHR 37.1, Winter: 106-128. * Angrist, Joshua and William Evans (1998). Children and Their Parents Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size. AER 88.3: 450-477. * Pencavel, John (2002). A Cohort Analysis of the Association Between Work and Wages Among Men, JHR 37:2, Spring: 251-274. * Baker, Michael (2002). The Retirement Behavior of Married Couples, JHR 37.1, Winter: 1-34. * Michaud, Pierre-Carl (2003). Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples IZA Discussion Paper 832.
2. Family-Decisionmaking Surveys Behrman, Jere (1997). Intrahousehold Distribution and the Family, In Mark Rosenzweig and Oded Stark, eds., Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Lundberg, Shelly and Robert A. Pollak (1996). Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage. JEP 10.4, Fall: 139-158. A. Theory: Bargaining and Collective Models Ermisch, Chapter 2. McElroy, M. and M.J. Horney (1981). Nash-Bargained Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Demand. IER 22: 333-349. Lundberg, S. and R. Pollak (1993). Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market. JPE 101: 988-1010. Lommerud, Kjell Erik and Kai A. Konrad (2000). The Bargaining Family Revisited, Canadian Journal of Economics, 33.2, May:471-487. Chiappori, P.-A. (1992). Collective Labor Supply and Welfare. JPE 100: 437-467. Blundell, Richard, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, and Costas Meghir (2005). Collective Labor Supply with Children. JPE 113.6, December: 1277-1306. B. Evidence McElroy, M. (1990). The Empirical Content of Nash-Bargained Household Behavior. JHR 25, Fall: 559-583. Lundberg, S., R. Pollak and T. Wales (1997). Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources: Evidence from the U.K Child Benefit. JHR 32.3, Summer: 463-480.
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* Browning, M., F. Bourguignon, P.-A. Chiappori and V. Lechene (1994). Incomes and Outcomes: A Structural Model of Intrahousehold Allocation. JPE 102: 1067-1096. * Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Bernard Fortin, and Guy Lacroix (2002). Marriage Market, Divorce Legislation, and Household Labor Supply, JPE 110.1, February: 37-72. * Thomas, Duncan, Dante Contreras and Elizabeth Frankenberg (2002). Distribution of Power Within the Household and Child Health. http://chd.ucla.edu/IFLS/ppr/atmarr3.pdf * Attanasio, Orazio and Valerie Lechene (2002). Tests of Income Pooling in Household Decisions, Review of Economic Dynamics 5:4, October: 720-748. * Kooreman, P. (2000). The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefit System. AER 90.3, June: 571-583. 3. Household Production A. Basics Ermisch, Chapter 4 Gronau, R. (1977). Leisure, Home Production, and Work--The Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited. JPE 85: 1099-1123. Pollak, R.A. and M.L. Wachter (1975). The Relevance of the Household Production Function and Its Implications for the Allocation of Time. JPE 83.2: 255-277. * Hamermesh, Daniel S. (2005). Time to Eat: Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality. Presented at the ATUS Early Results Conference, forthcoming Journal of Agricultural Economics. [On-line] * Udry, Christopher (1996). Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household. JPE 104.5, October: 1010-1046. * Akresh, Richard (2005). Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1858. [On-line]. * Duflo, Esther and Christopher Udry (2004). Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote DIvoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices. [On-line] B. Specialization and Gender Wage Differentials Lundberg, Shelly (2005). Gender and Household Decision-making. Lecture notes, University of Siena International School of Economic Research, XVIII Workshop on Gender and Economics, 4-7th July 2005 [On-line]. Lazear, E. and S. Rosen (1990). Male-Female Wage Differentials in Job Ladders. JOLE 8: S106S123. Vagstad, Steinar (2001). On Private Incentives to Acquire Household Production Skills, Journal of Population Economics, 14.2, June: 301-312. Francois, Patrick (1998). Gender Discrimination without Gender Difference: Theory and Policy Responses, Journal of Public Economics, 68.1, April: 1-32. * Greenwood, Jeremy, Ananth Seshadri, and Mehmet Yorukoglu (2005). Engines of Liberation. ReStud 72: 109-133.
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* Gronau, R. (1988). Sex-related Wage Differentials Womens and Interrupted Labor Careers: The Chicken or the Egg. JOLE 6, July: 277-301. * Anderson, Deborah, Melissa Binder and Kate Krause (2003). The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-Schedule Flexibility, ILRR 56: 2 * Stratton, Leslie S., The Degree of Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework and How Specialization Varies Across Couple Households, presented at SOLE Annual Meetings, San Francisco, June 2005. 4. Children A. Fertility Ermisch, Chapter 6 See Economics 543 B. Altruism Ermisch, Chapter 3 Bergstrom, T. (1989). A Fresh Look at the Rotten Kid Theorem--and Other Household Mysteries. JPE 97: 1138-1159. * Altonji, Joseph G., Fumio Hayashi and Lawrence Kotlikoff (1992). Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data. AER 82: 1177-1198. C. Investments in Children Ermisch, Chapter 5. Behrman, Jere, Robert A. Pollak and Paul Taubman (1982). Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny. JPE 90: 52-73. * Ermisch, John and Marco Francesconi (2001). Family Matters: Impacts of Family Background on Educational Attainments. Economica 68: 137-156, D. Equivalence Scales and the Costs of Children Nelson, Julie (1988). Household Economies of Scale in Consumption: Theory and Evidence. Econometrica 56.6, November: 1301-1314. Apps, Patricia and Ray Rees (2002). Household Production, full consumption and the costs of children. Labour Economics 8: 621-648 * Bradbury, Bruce (2005). Time and the Cost of Children. [http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/workingpaper05/paper04/BradburyTimeCosts_NPC.pdf]. 5. Marriage A. Search and Matching Ermisch, Chapter 7. Burdett, K. and M.G. Coles (1997). Marriage and Class. QJE 112: 141-168.
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Mortensen, Dale T. (1982). Property Rights and Efficiency in Mating, Racing and Related Games," AER, 72: 968-979. Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (2003). A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage. Journal of Socio-Economics, 31: 609-645. Gould, Eric D. and M. Daniele Paserman (2003). Waiting for Mr. Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates, Journal of Urban Economics 53:2, March: 257-281. Siow, Aloysius (1998). Differential Fecundity, Markets, and Gender Roles, Journal of Political Economy, 106.2, April: 334-354. B. Commitment: Intertemporal Models Lundberg, Shelly and Robert A. Pollak (2003). Efficiency in Marriage, Review of Economics of the Household, September: 153-167. Baker, Matthew J., and Joyce P. Jacobsen (2005). Marriage, Specialization and the Gender Division of Labor, February 2005. [On-line] Basu, Kaushik (2001). Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-determined Balance of Power. Forthcoming in EJ. [On-line] C. Divorce and Child Support Ermisch, Chapter 8. Peters, H. Elizabeth (1986). Marriage and Divorce: Informational Constraints and Private Contracting, American Economic Review, 76.3, June: 437-454. Weiss, Y. and R. Willis (1985). Children as Collective Goods and Divorce Settlements. JOLE 3: 268292. Rasul, Imran, The Economics of Child Custody, Economica, February 2006, 73: 1-25. * Stevenson, Betsey and Justin Wolfers (2006). Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress. NBER Working Paper 10175. QJE 121(1), February: 267-288. * Ermisch, John (2006). New Families, Child Support, and Divorced Fathers Contact with their Children. [http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/2006-14.pdf]. * Del Boca, Daniela and Chris Flinn (1994). Expenditure Decisions of Divorced Mothers and Income Composition. JHR 29: 742-761. D. Nonmarital Childbearing Willis, Robert J. (1999). A Theory of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing. JPE 107: S33-S64. Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility. Edited by Lawrence L. Wu and Barbara Wolf. Russell Sage Foundat...