Marriage and Child Bearing
Topics Discussed in Class:
Basic Theory and New Innovations.
Nonstructural Estimation.
Structural Estimation.
Readings Discussed in Class (in order of discussion)
Becker, Gary, E. Landes, and Robert Michael (1977). "An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability." Journal of Political Economy. 85: 1141-1187.
Lundberg, Shelley, and Robert Pollack (1996). "Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage." Journal of Economic Perspectives. 10(4): 139-158.
Heckman, James and James Walker (1990). "The Relationship Between Wages and Income and the Timing and Spacing of Births: Evidence from the Swedish Longitudinal Data." Econometrica. 58(6): 1411-1441.
Wolpin, Kenneth (1984). "An Estimable Dynamic Stochastic Model of Fertility and Child Mortality." Journal of Political Economy. 92: 852-874.
Hotz, V. Joseph, and Robert Miller (1988). "An Empirical Analysis of Life Cycle Fertility and Female Labor Supply." Econometrica. 56: 91-118.
Brien, Michael, Lee Lillard, and Steven Stern (1997). "Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality."
Extra readings
Becker, Gary and Nigel Tomes (1979). "An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility." Journal of Political Economy. 87(6): 1153-1189.
Lillard, Lee (1993). "Simultaneous Equations for Hazards: Marriage Duration and Fertility Timing." Journal of Econometrics. 56: 189-217.
Newman, J. and C. McCulloch (1984). "A Hazard Rate Approach to the Timing of Births." Econometrica. 52: 939-961.
Mroz, Thomas, and David Weir (1990). "Structural Change in Life Cycle Fertility During the Fertility Transition: France Before and After the Revolution of 1789." Population Studies. 44(1): 61-87.