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Author: Gray, Jeffrey S.
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Gray, Jeffrey S. |
Divorce Probabilities and Young Women's Occupational Choices Working Paper, Department of Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Keyword(s): Divorce; Labor Force Participation; Occupational Choice; Occupational Status; Variables, Instrumental; Wives, Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Longitudinal data suggest that young women increase their labor force participation two to three years prior to divorcing. This increase in labor market activity largely reflects a rise in the percentage of wives working in professional and managerial occupations. This paper investigates the direction of causality between wives' employment decisions and divorce probabilities using instrumental variables techniques. The results support the hypothesis that rising divorce probabilities contribute to women's increasing participation in professional occupations. A women's occupational choice does not have a significant effect on her probability of divorce. |
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Gray, Jeffrey S. "Divorce Probabilities and Young Women's Occupational Choices." Working Paper, Department of Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 1994. |
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Gray, Jeffrey S. |
The Fall in Men's Return to Marriage: Declining Productivity Effects or Changing Selection? Journal of Human Resources 32,3 (Summer 1997): 481-504. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/146180 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Earnings, Wives; Household Models; Human Capital; Marital Status; Variables, Instrumental; Wage Equations; Wives, Income Historically, one of the most robust findings from human capital wage equations has been that married men earn more than men who never marry. However, the earnings premium paid to married compared with never-married men declined by more than 40 percent during the 1980s. Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (young men and youth cohorts) are used to explore two competing explanations for this decline: changes in the selection of high-wage men into marriage and changes in the productivity effects of marriage due to declining specialization within households. The results suggest that the drop in the marriage wage premium was due largely to a decline in the productivity effects associated with marriage. Instrumental variables estimation suggests that these declining productivity effects can be explained by a reduction in the average degree of specialization across households coupled with an increase in the wage penalty associated with wives' labor market hours. |
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Bibliography Citation
Gray, Jeffrey S. "The Fall in Men's Return to Marriage: Declining Productivity Effects or Changing Selection?" Journal of Human Resources 32,3 (Summer 1997): 481-504.
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Gray, Jeffrey S. Beller, Andrea H. Graham, John W. |
Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Support; Childhood Residence; Children, Home Environment; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Probit; Parents, Single; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An alarming trend among families in the U.S. is the increase in the percentage of children living with only one parent, usually their mother. In this paper, we investigate empirically the direct effect of the absence of at least one parent from the household during childhood on the labor market outcomes--earnings and employment--of young black and white men, paying particular attention to the effect of child support payments. Employing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) for 1990 and 1994, we apply OLS estimation to the natural logarithm of earnings and probit to the probability of being in the labor force. Preliminary findings indicate that living in a non-intact family as a child has a direct negative effect on the wages of young men, especially for whites. |
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Bibliography Citation
Gray, Jeffrey S., Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham. "Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |