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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Blandin, Adam
Jones, John Bailey
Yang, Fang
Marriage and Work among Prime-Age Men
Working Paper 23-02, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, January 2023.
Also: https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/working_papers/2023/wp_23-02
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Keyword(s): Male Sample; Marriage; Work Hours/Schedule

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Married men work substantially more hours than men who have never been married, even after controlling for observables. Panel data reveal that much of this gap is attributable to an increase in work in the years leading up to marriage. Two potential explanations for this increase are: (i) men hit by positive labor market shocks are more likely to marry; and (ii) the prospect of marriage increases men's labor supply. We quantify the relative importance of these two channels using a structural life-cycle model of marriage and labor supply. Our calibration implies that marriage substantially increases male labor supply. Counterfactual simulations suggest that if men were unable to marry, prime-age male work hours would fall by 7%, and if marriage rates fell to the extent observed, men born around 1980 would work 2% fewer hours than men born around 1960.
Bibliography Citation
Blandin, Adam, John Bailey Jones and Fang Yang. "Marriage and Work among Prime-Age Men." Working Paper 23-02, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, January 2023.
2. Erosa, Andres
Fuster, Luisa
Restuccia, Diego
A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages
Working Paper 05-09, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and University of Toronto, September 2005.
Also: http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/economic_research/working_papers/pdfs/wp05-9.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Keyword(s): Birth Rate; Fertility; Human Capital Theory; Maternal Employment; Wage Gap; Wage Models; Wage Theory; Wages, Men; Wages, Women

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Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages almost double during the first 20 years of labor market experience and that there are substantial gender differences in employment and hours of work during the life cycle. A large portion of gender differences in labor market attachment can be traced to the impact of children on the labor supply of women. We develop a quantitative life-cycle model of fertility, labor supply, and human capital accumulation decisions. We use this model to assess the role of fertility on gender differences in labor supply and wages over the life cycle. In our model, fertility lowers the lifetime intensity of market activity, reducing the incentives for human capital accumulation and wage growth over the life cycle of females relative to males. We calibrate the model to panel data of men and to fertility and child related labor market histories of women. We find that fertility accounts for most of the gender differences in labor supply and wages during the life cycle documented in the NLSY data.
Bibliography Citation
Erosa, Andres, Luisa Fuster and Diego Restuccia. "A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages." Working Paper 05-09, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and University of Toronto, September 2005.