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The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labor Supply and Wages

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper we estimate the effects of children and the differential effects of sons and daughters on men's labor supply and hourly wage rates. The responses to fatherhood of two cohorts of men from the PSID sample--men born in and before 1950 and men born after 1950--are examined separately, and we use fixed effects estimation to control for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that fatherhood significantly increases the hourly wage rates and annual hours of work for men from both cohorts, and that it is important to allow for heterogeneity and non-linearity in estimating these effects. Most notably, men's labor supply and wage rates increase significantly more in response to the births of sons than to the births of daughters.

Source: The Review of Economics and Statistics

DOI: 10.1162/003465302317411514

Authors: Shelly Lundberg, Elaina Rose

Institution: University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3122008371

FWCI: 34.77

Cites: 34

Cited by: 431

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