TY - JOUR
T1 - Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses
AU - Kalenkoski, Charlene M.
AU - Lacombe, Donald J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses’ equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse’s time use on another’s, relying on panel data or instrumental variables techniques to account for endogeneity. However, panel data often are not available and available instruments often are not satisfactory, making examination of the direct relationship between spouses’ time use difficult. Spatial econometric techniques applied to cross-sectional data do not require instrumental variables. This study estimates both a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) Model and a Spatial Durbin Error Model (SDEM) to examine the labor hours of husbands and wives in dual-earner couples using the 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (ASEC). In these models, each spouse is treated as a direct “neighbor” of the other in a spatial weight matrix and non-spouses are treated as non-neighbors. Estimates of both the own- and cross-wage effects on labor hours and an estimate of the direct relationship between spouses’ labor hours are obtained.
AB - Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses’ equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse’s time use on another’s, relying on panel data or instrumental variables techniques to account for endogeneity. However, panel data often are not available and available instruments often are not satisfactory, making examination of the direct relationship between spouses’ time use difficult. Spatial econometric techniques applied to cross-sectional data do not require instrumental variables. This study estimates both a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) Model and a Spatial Durbin Error Model (SDEM) to examine the labor hours of husbands and wives in dual-earner couples using the 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (ASEC). In these models, each spouse is treated as a direct “neighbor” of the other in a spatial weight matrix and non-spouses are treated as non-neighbors. Estimates of both the own- and cross-wage effects on labor hours and an estimate of the direct relationship between spouses’ labor hours are obtained.
KW - Employment hours
KW - Intrahousehold allocation of time
KW - Labor supply
KW - Own- and cross-wage effects
KW - Spatial econometrics
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U2 - 10.1007/s12122-014-9196-2
DO - 10.1007/s12122-014-9196-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925511157
VL - 36
SP - 67
EP - 77
JO - Journal of Labor Research
JF - Journal of Labor Research
SN - 0195-3613
IS - 1
ER -