Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment

Seitz, Shannon

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“…(Seitz, 2004), and an index of the generosity to the wife of local divorce legislation (Chiappori, Fortin, and Lacroix, 2002). At present, we consider the wife's share of potential labor earnings, presented in Figure 3, and the age gap between spouses as distribution factors in estimation.…”

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Consumption Inequality and Intra-household Allocations

Lise¹,

Seitz²

2011

The Review of Economic Studies

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The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of inequality along two dimensions. First, the use of adult equivalence scales underestimates the level of cross sectional consumption inequality by 30%. This result is driven by the fact that large differences in the earnings of husbands and wives translate into large differences in consumption allocations within households. Second, the rise in inequality since the 1970s is overstated by two-thirds: within household inequality declined over time as the share of income provided by wives increased. Our findings also indicate that increases in marital sorting on wages and hours worked can simultaneously explain virtually all of the decline in within household inequality and a substantial fraction of the rise in between household inequality for one and two adult households in the UK since the 1970s.JEL Classification: D12, D13, D63, J12, J22

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Consumption Inequality and Intra-household Allocations

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2011

The Review of Economic Studies

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“…See Grossbard-Shechtman (1984), Brien (1997), Lundberg, Pollak, and Wales (1997), Chiappori, Fortin, and Lacroix (2002), Del Boca and Flinn (2005), Amuedo-Dorantes and Grossbard (2007), Seitz (2009).…”

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Assortative matching and search with labor supply and home production

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Robin

2013

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We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply and home production. We characterize the steadystate equilibrium when exogenous divorce is the only source of risk. We study nonparametric identification using cross-section data on wages and hours worked, and we develop a nonparametric estimator. The estimated matching probabilities that can be derived from the steady-state flow conditions are strongly increasing in male and female wages. We estimate the expected share of marriage surplus appropriated by each spouse as a function of wages. The model allows to infer the specialization of female spouses in home production from observations on wages and hours worked.

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“…Inaccurate ratios can be detrimental to estimation, and the propensity of the CPS to measure population counts with error is a likely contributor to the poor features of the ratios used by Seitz (2009). presents evidence that measurement errors in population counts might cause attenuation bias in the predicted effect of sex ratios on marriage.…”

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“…6 For example, the work of Seitz (2009) relies on measuring sex ratios every year during a 15 year period for a cohort of NLSY79 respondents. 7 To construct the sex ratios for each sample year Seitz (2009) reweights the NLSY79 sampling weights so that the number of married and unmarried men and women in each marriage market match the CPS counts for that category and year. 8 After reweighting, new ratios are constructed from the counts of unmarried individuals for each market and year.…”

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Marriage Markets, Timing of First Marriage, and Child Outcomes

Kolczykiewicz

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I develop an estimation framework for a model tracking population changes over time where observations are recorded by multiple sources with differing frequency and precision.I apply this framework to recover the number of unmarried men and women by age and race in each state for every year over the last three decades by combining measurements from the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and the American Community Yearly estimates of potential partner supply are also used to identify and estimate the effect of mother's marriage on children born out of wedlock. I use the Child and Young Adult Survey (CNLSY79), a survey that collects information on children of the NLSY79 women, to link children with their mothers and the marriage markets these women experienced.Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions show that black children whose mothers marry are more likely to obtain a high school diploma relative to children whose mothers remain unwed. The effect of marital union is also positive when sex ratios are used as instruments for the mother's marriage decision. However, the instrumental variable results are not robust to the inclusion of other explanatory variables that can affect marriage market features. JEL-Classification: I20, J11, J12, J13

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Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

Consumption Inequality and Intra-household Allocations

Consumption Inequality and Intra-household Allocations

Assortative matching and search with labor supply and home production

Marriage Markets, Timing of First Marriage, and Child Outcomes

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