This is a survey of applied econometric research on the effects of children on female labor supply. Reasons for interest in the topic, and a basic model and terminology, are reviewed. Concerns are raised about the possible endogeneity of child status variables, and about the instrumental...

In Lintner's model of the dividend behavior of firms the change in dividends is a function of current earnings and the lagged dividends. We show that under a rational expectations hypothesis of management behavior the change-in-dividends equation should include lagged earnings as an additional...

Most micro-labour supply models presented in the literature embody the implicit assumption that the coefficients of the explanatory variables are stable over the range of variation for annual hours of work. In this paper we discuss reasons why this may not be true. A two-stage consistent...

The usual procedures for testing the significance of sample correlations between pairs of independently normally distributed series are not appropriate for testing sample correlations between pairs of autocorrelated series. We present sampling evidence supporting our hypothesis that the...

Much of the public concern about the growing labor force participation of women centers on feared, or hoped for, effects of the market work of mothers on the well-being of their children. On the one side, there are those who fear that the children of working mothers will not receive the care...