Economics 816: 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."
Notes
Homework
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.
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