Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/springer-journals/relative-wage-changes-and-fertility-in-the-us-Seq1OGO3nd
References (84)
-
K. Musick, Paula England, Sarah Edgington, Nicole Kangas (2009)
Education Differences in Intended and Unintended FertilitySocial Forces, 88
-
Weekly earnings for husbands are a product of the CPS "usual weekly hours" and the computed hourly wage -
Junsen Zhang, J. Quan, P. Meerbergen (1994)
The Effect of Tax-Transfer Policies on Fertility in Canada, 1921-88Journal of Human Resources, 29
-
(2009)
Are Children 'Normal'?, FRB of St -
(2005)
A General Equilibrium Analysis of Parental Leave Policies, Working Papers tecipa-197 -
Angus Deaton (1985)
Panel data from time series of cross-sectionsJournal of Econometrics, 30
-
Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang (2009)
The Effect of House Price on Fertility: Evidence from Hong KongEmerging Markets: Economics eJournal
-
(1963)
Market Prices, Opportunity Costs, and Income Effects, in Measurement in Economics, Studies in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics in Memory of Yehuda Grunfeld, edited by C.F. Christ -
C. Westoff, Emily Marshall (2010)
Hispanic Fertility, Religion and Religiousness in the U.S.Population Research and Policy Review, 29
-
S. Bhaumik, J. Nugent (2005)
Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West GermanyLabor: Demographics & Economics of the Family
-
SusanL Averett (2002)
The Economics of Work and Family -
How Much Does Local Economic Growth Help the Poor? Working Paper -
LarryE Jones, Michèle Tertilt (2009)
Frontiers of Family Economics -
O. Duncan, W. Grabill, C. Kiser, P. Whelpton (1959)
The Fertility of American Women.Journal of the American Statistical Association, 55
-
René Morissette, F. Hou (2008)
Does the Labour Supply of Wives Respond to Husbands' Wages? Canadian Evidence from Micro Data and Grouped DataLabor: Supply & Demand
-
To save space, trends in ASFR are not separated by marital status. However, there are also differences by marital status -
GaryS Becker (1960)
An Economic Analysis of Fertility, Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries -
J. Mellor (1997)
The Effect of Family Planning Programs on the Fertility of Welfare Recipients: Evidence from Medicaid ClaimsJournal of Human Resources, 33
-
SR Aiyagari, J Greenwood, N Guner (2000)
On the State of the UnionJournal of Political Economy, 108
-
F Bean, M Tienda (1987)
The Hispanic Population of the United States (for the Committee for Research on the 1980 Census) -
J. Lindo (2010)
Are Children Really Inferior Goods?: Evidence from Displacement-Driven Income ShocksJournal of Human Resources, 45
-
Amanda Mansfield (1953)
The State of the UnionCurrent History
-
The estimates for the single women were insignificant in all other specifications -
V. Hotz, J. Klerman, R. Willis (1996)
The Economics of Fertility in Developed CountriesResearch Papers in Economics
-
John Pencavel (1998)
The market work behavior and wages of women: 1975-94.Journal of Human Resources, 33
-
DouglasE Hyatt, WilliamJ Milne (1991)
Can Public Policy Affect Fertility?Canadian Public Policy — Analyse de Politiques, XVII
-
(2003)
Births: Final Data for -
John McDonald (1983)
The emergence of countercyclical US fertility: a reassessment of the evidence.Journal of macroeconomics, 5 4
-
J. Martin, M. Park (1999)
Trends in twin and triplet births: 1980-97.National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, 47 24
-
LawrenceF Katz, KevinM Murphy (1992)
Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–1987: Supply and Demand FactorsQuarterly Journal of Economics, CVII
-
P. Devereux (2004)
Changes in Relative Wages and Family Labor SupplyThe Journal of Human Resources, XXXIX
-
SandraE Black, PJ Devereux, KG Salvanes (2005)
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's EducationQuarterly Journal of Economics, 120
-
R. Blundell, A. Duncan, C. Meghir (1995)
Estimating labour supply responses using tax reformsEconometrica, 66
-
LynnA Karoly, JacobAlex Klerman (1994)
The Changing Distribution of Income in an Open US Economy -
L. Pérez, F. Bean, M. Tienda (1990)
The Hispanic Population of the United States.Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85
-
T. Schultz (1985)
Changing World Prices, Women's Wages, and the Fertility Transition: Sweden, 1860-1910Journal of Political Economy, 93
-
L. Whittington, J. Alm, H. Peters (1990)
Fertility and the personal exemption: implicit pronatalist policy in the United States.The American economic review, 80 3
-
Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn (2005)
Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980–2000Journal of Labor Economics, 25
-
(1979)
In order to get reasonable group sizes, the observations were further grouped into 2-year averages -
Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang (2010)
The Effect of House Price on Fertility: Evidence from Hong KongEconomic Inquiry, 48
-
A. Adserà (2005)
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in EuropeEuropean Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, 27
-
K. La, Klerman Ja (1991)
Regional differences in increasing earnings inequality. -
Earnings refer to the hourly wages for women and the weekly earnings (wages  hours) for men. 23 -
K. Zhao (2011)
Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings DistributionThe B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 11
-
P. Devereux (2007)
Improved Errors-in-Variables Estimators for Grouped DataJournal of Business & Economic Statistics, 25
-
MichaelW Klein, Scott Schuh, RobertK Triest (2003)
Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange RateJournal of International Economics, 59
-
T. Mathews, B. Hamilton (2002)
Mean age of mother, 1970-2000.National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, 51 1
-
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner (1999)
More on Marriage , Fertility , and the Distribution of Income by -
A. Adserà (2004)
Changing fertility rates in developed countries. The impact of labor market institutionsJournal of Population Economics, 17
-
(2005)
Social Change, Economie d’avant garde Research Report No -
Jacob Mincer (1963)
Measurement in Economics, Studies in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics in Memory of Yehuda Grunfeld -
For example, CPS/ORG earnings in year 1982 were merged to the IPUMS-CPS total number of women and the number of women with 0-year-old children from the -
A. Amialchuk (2013)
Relative Wage Changes and Fertility in the USEastern Economic Journal, 39
-
JosephV Hotz, JacobA Klerman, RobertJ Willis (1997)
Handbook of Population and Family Economics -
S. Jackson (1995)
Wages and Fertility in AustraliaJournal of the Australian Population Association, 12
-
J. Angrist, G. Imbens (1994)
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment EffectsNBER Working Paper Series
-
J. Angrist (1991)
Grouped Data Estimation and Testing in Simple Labor Supply ModelsJournal of Econometrics, 47
-
(2003)
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Investigation -
(2002)
Fertility Decline in Russia in the Early and Mid 1990s: The Role of Uncertainty and Labor Market Crises -
M. Kreyenfeld (2005)
Economic uncertainty and fertility postponement: evidence from German panel data -
(2004)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey: Version 2.0. Machine-Readable Database -
(1979)
Examples of grouping models of fertility are in Butz and Ward -
Steven Martin (2000)
Diverging fertility among U.S. women who delay childbearing past age 30Demography, 37
-
(2011)
Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups (MORG) Annual Files: 1979–2007 Extracts, Machine-Readable Data Files/US Department of Commerce -
P. Devereux, Sandra Black, K. Salvanes (2005)
The more the merrier? The effect of family size and birth order on children's educationOpen Access publications
-
Banyue. Wang, Zhanxiang Qiu (2003)
Chapter 5 -
Susan Averett (2002)
Fertility, Public Policy, and Mothers in the Labor Force -
L. Jones, M. Tertilt (2008)
Chapter 5 An Economic History of Fertility in the United States: 1826–1960, 1
-
J. Gray, J. Stockard, J. Stone (2006)
The rising share of nonmarital births: Fertility choice or marriage behavior?Demography, 43
-
R. Willis (1973)
A New Approach to the Economic Theory of Fertility BehaviorJournal of Political Economy, 81
-
Recent trends in Australian fertility/Ralph Lattimore -
L. Malm, Krishanu Hu (2012)
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children -
Michael Klein, Scott Schuh, Robert. Triest (2000)
Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange RateInternational Finance eJournal
-
I do not use the proportion of employed wives directly (unlike the original model) because of its endogeneity -
David Autor, Lawrence Katz, M. Kearney (2005)
Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and PricesNBER Working Paper Series
-
(1991)
Can Public Policy Affect Fertility? Canadian Public Policy -
Stacy Dickert‐Conlin, A. Chandra (1999)
Taxes and the Timing of BirthsJournal of Political Economy, 107
-
F. Levy, R. Murnane (1992)
U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed ExplanationsJournal of Economic Literature, 30
-
V. Dondekar (1962)
Demographic and Economic Change in Developed CountriesEconometrica, 30
-
(2002)
The Timing of Childbearing among Heterogeneous Women in Dynamic General Equilibrium -
(2005)
Empirical evidence on the existence of this quantity-quality trade-off is inconclusive. Recent papers by -
Yong Chen, S. Rosenthal (2008)
Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun?Journal of Urban Economics, 64
-
WilliamP Butz, MP Ward (1979)
The Emergence of Countercyclical US FertilityAmerican Economic Review, 69
-
(1994)
Wage Inequality and Regional Labor Market Performance in the United States
- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2013 by Eastern Economic Association
- Subject
- Economics; Economics, general; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
- ISSN
- 0094-5056
- eISSN
- 1939-4632
- DOI
- 10.1057/eej.2013.2
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
During the last several decades, the US wage structure experienced substantial changes because of energy price shocks, increased international competition, and technological change. Katz and Murphy, among others, argued that these changes reflected a rise in demand for skilled workers and women. I use these types of relative wage changes to identify the effects of women's and men's earnings on fertility rates. Measurement error in grouped regressions is addressed by applying the Devereux unbiased-error-in-variables estimator. I find that higher earnings of men increase fertility among younger married women. Holding men's earnings constant, increased wages of married women reduce fertility among the younger women and increase it among the older women.
Journal
Eastern Economic Journal – Springer Journals
Published: Mar 12, 2013