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Author: Troske, Kenneth R.
Resulting in 7 citations.
1. Buddlemeyer, Hielke
Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labour Economists, September 2004.
Also: http://gatton.uky.edu/faculty/troske/working_pap/troskevoicu081704.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists
Keyword(s): Bayesian; Fertility; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Labor Supply; Markov chain / Markov model; Modeling; Women

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The above cited pdf does not use the same abstract as the one below, but it is dated one month prior to the above paper presented.

Three mechanisms generate the statistical relationship between women's fertility decisions and their level of labor market involvement. Children directly affect women's labor supply by raising the value of non-market options. Having children frequently forces women to temporarily leave the labor market leading to depreciation of their human capital, thus indirectly affecting subsequent labor market decisions. Individual heterogeneity with respect to tastes for market work and family structure induce additional correlation between fertility and participation behavior throughout lifetime. Distinguishing these three effects is important for effective policy design. This paper proposes a model that disentangles the direct, indirect, and unobserved heterogeneity effects, and evaluates their relative importance. Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. The estimation is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Bibliography Citation
Buddlemeyer, Hielke, Kenneth R. Troske and Alexandru Voicu. "Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques." Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labour Economists, September 2004.
2. Buddlemeyer, Hielke
Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
Working Paper, European Economic Association & Econometric Society, January 30, 2004.
Also: http://www.eea-esem.com/papers/eea-esem/2004/1671/BuddelmeyerTroskeVoicu1.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: European Economic Association & Econometric Society
Keyword(s): Bayesian; Childbearing; Fertility; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Labor Supply; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Markov chain / Markov model; Modeling, Probit; Women

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Children have both a direct and indirect effect on a women’s supply of labor to the market. The direct effect is a result of children raising the value of non-market option of women thereby reducing their labor supply. The indirect effect derives from the fact that having children frequently forces women to leave the labor market for some period, leading to a fall in their human capital and their market wage, and therefore in their propensity to work in the formal labor market. Distinguishing these two effects is important for effective policy design. This paper proposes a model that disentangles the direct and indirect effect of children on women’s labor force participation, and evaluates their relative importance. Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modelled. The estimation is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The indirect effect is more important and grows with the length of the interruption. The direct effect declines with the age of the child.
Bibliography Citation
Buddlemeyer, Hielke, Kenneth R. Troske and Alexandru Voicu. "Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques." Working Paper, European Economic Association & Econometric Society, January 30, 2004.
3. Kunze, Astrid
Troske, Kenneth R.
Gender Differences in Job Search among Young Workers: A Study Using Displaced Workers in the United States
Southern Economic Journal 82,1 (July 2015): 185-207.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4284/0038-4038-2012.239/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Gender Differences; Job Search; Job Tenure; Wages

This article investigates gender differences in job search, job tenure, and wages, whether these differences vary over the early part of the life-cycle, and whether they are associated with fertility decisions. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youths on highly attached displaced workers aged 20 to 45, we find that 20- to 29-year old women and women older than 40 experience longer spells of displacement than comparable men, but that time to a new job is similar by gender for those between 30 and 39 years of age. The age pattern in male-female wage differences in the post-displacement job is similar, with the largest differences occurring at ages 20 to 29 and over 40. We find no gender differences in tenure in the post-displacement job. We interpret the differences for the younger ages to be related to fertility and we provide evidence that supports this view.
Bibliography Citation
Kunze, Astrid and Kenneth R. Troske. "Gender Differences in Job Search among Young Workers: A Study Using Displaced Workers in the United States." Southern Economic Journal 82,1 (July 2015): 185-207.
4. Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 2004.
Also: http://www.missouri.edu/~troskek/working_pap/troskevoicu081704.pdf (no longer available)
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Missouri - Columbia
Keyword(s): Data Analysis; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Markov chain / Markov model; Maternal Employment; Monte Carlo; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Race; Statistical Analysis; Women

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In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). We examine the effect of children both prior to and after birth as well as how the effect of children varies with the number of children. We also decompose the total effect of children into the direct and indirect components and separately examine the dynamics of these components. Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be correlated in a general fashion both across time and across choices. The estimation is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. We find that children have a strong effect on a women's labor market behavior in the post-birth period and that differences in expected fertility have a strong effect on labor market behavior in the pre-birth period. We also find that both the direct and indirect effects are large immediately after the birth of a child but that the indirect effect declines quickly over time. The effects of children vary by education and race.
Bibliography Citation
Troske, Kenneth R. and Alexandru Voicu. "Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 2004.
5. Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), August 2004.
Also: http://opus.zbw-kiel.de/volltexte/2005/2450/pdf/dp1251.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Data Analysis; Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Markov chain / Markov model; Maternal Employment; Monte Carlo; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Race; Statistical Analysis; Women

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). We examine the effect of children both prior to and after birth as well as how the effect of children varies with the number of children. We also decompose the total effect of children into the direct and indirect components and separately examine the dynamics of these components. Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be correlated in a general fashion both across time and across choices. The estimation is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. We find that children have a strong effect on a women's labor market behavior in both the pre- and post-birth period. We also find that both the direct and indirect effects are large immediately after the birth of a child but that the indirect effect declines quickly over time. The effects of children vary by education and race.
Bibliography Citation
Troske, Kenneth R. and Alexandru Voicu. "Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques." IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), August 2004.
6. Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?
IZA DIscussion Paper No. 4074, Institute for the Study of Labor, March 2009
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Fertility; Heterogeneity; Labor Supply; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Probit; Mothers, Education; Women

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We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential labor market decisions. We estimate the model using panel data from NLSY79. Our results show that women with higher education work more before the birth of the first child, but children have larger negative effects on their level of labor market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with respect to participation. Other things equal, higher wages reduce the effect of children on labor supply. Controlling for wages, women with higher education face larger negative effects of children on labor supply, which suggest they are characterized by a combination of higher marginal product of time spent in the production of child quality and higher marginal product of time relative to the marginal product of other inputs into the production of child quality.
Bibliography Citation
Troske, Kenneth R. and Alexandru Voicu. "The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?" IZA DIscussion Paper No. 4074, Institute for the Study of Labor, March 2009.
7. Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
Empirical Economics 45,1 (August 2013): 483-521.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00181-012-0620-2
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; First Birth; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Marital Status; Maternal Employment

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We analyze the effect of the timing and spacing of births on the labor supply of married women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of the labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity of the effects of children on labor supply and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential labor market decisions. Delaying the first birth leads to higher pre-natal levels of labor market involvement and reduces the negative effect of the first child on labor supply. The effect of the second child increases with the spacing of the two births as women, returning to work after the first birth, finance child care time increasingly through reductions in market time. Individual heterogeneity is considerable; women with lower propensity for children have the first birth later in life and space subsequent births more closely together, work more before the birth of the first child, but face larger effects of children on their labor supply.
Bibliography Citation
Troske, Kenneth R. and Alexandru Voicu. "The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women." Empirical Economics 45,1 (August 2013): 483-521.