This study examines the empirical associations between female labor supply and child status and marital status using 1970 and 1980 U.S. census data and 1971 and 1981 Canadian census data. When the data are used in a purely cross-sectional manner, without controlling for previous labor supply, we...

This study draws attention to empirical evidence for the United Kingdom and Canada rejecting the separability of household commodity demands from labor supply. As might be anticipated on the basis of these rejections, using Canadian data, we find clear patterns in the average expenditure shares...

The paper begins with a reexamination of the goals of model evaluation and choice. Desirable properties for an empirical model are stated as situational, a priori, observational and specification consistency principles. If these consistency principles are accepted as a basis for model...