Self-published Studies
135 resultsAccounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses when Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on
the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However,
most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at the household
level. We show that proxying individual consumption by household consumption biases
estimated Frisch elasticities downward as limited commitment in the household induces
individual consumption to behave differently from household consumption. We develop
an improved estimation approach that eliminates this bias by exploiting information on
the composition of household consumption to infer its distribution. Using PSID data, we
estimate Frisch elasticities of about 0.65 for men and 0.8 for women.
the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However,
most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at the household
level. We show that proxying individual consumption by household consumption biases
estimated Frisch elasticities downward as limited commitment in the household induces
individual consumption to behave differently from household consumption. We develop
an improved estimation approach that eliminates this bias by exploiting information on
the composition of household consumption to infer its distribution. Using PSID data, we
estimate Frisch elasticities of about 0.65 for men and 0.8 for women.
Arocho, 2019 Emerging Adulthood Changing Expectations
Final analyses file used in Arocho, 2019, Emerging Adulthood article "Changes in expectations to marry and to divorce across the transition to adulthood". Data are from the PSID Transition into Adulthood 2005-2015 surveys, supplemented with marital history files of individuals and parents. Data have been imputed with multiple imputation and analyses variables have been demeaned.
CDS-2020 time diary weights are provided
as “User Generated” Data through OpenICPSR. Due to a low response rate and
small sample size for the CDS-2020 time diaries, these weights are considered unofficial and
being made available to researchers who understand the limitations (and
potential uses) of these data. CDS-2020 was
a follow-up data collection in the Fall of 2020 during
the Covid-19 pandemic for children who participated in the 2019 wave of CDS. Children’s time diaries
in CDS-2020 were
collected for a random week day and a random weekend day.
This study helps identify factors that contributed to changes in donations during the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the financial and health hardships families experienced. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS), this study explores trends in charitable giving across three time points (2016, 2018, and 2020) for groups of respondents. A quasi-experimental double pretest design and multi-group path modeling were used to explore changes in charitable giving.
Can Fertility Decline Help Explain Gender Pay Convergence?
These files contain the replication code for the article "Can Fertility Decline Help Explain the Narrowing Gender Pay Gap?", accepted for publication in Social Forces. This replication file is organized as an R project and contains all the code and data files needed to create the output in this article.
raw_data: contains the raw data files from the PSID, IPUMS-USA, and census-provided crosswalks.
clean_data: contains intermediate data files and the final analysis file
jobs: contains all code for the project, including code that generates the final analytic data from the raw data and code that generates the tables and figures in the paper and the appendix.
For more detailed replication instructions, see the readMe at https://github.com/ninocricco/fertility_decline_gender_gap.
raw_data: contains the raw data files from the PSID, IPUMS-USA, and census-provided crosswalks.
clean_data: contains intermediate data files and the final analysis file
jobs: contains all code for the project, including code that generates the final analytic data from the raw data and code that generates the tables and figures in the paper and the appendix.
For more detailed replication instructions, see the readMe at https://github.com/ninocricco/fertility_decline_gender_gap.