Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production

Marion Goussé (1) , Nicolas Jacquemet (2, 3) , Jean-Marc Robin (4)

1 Département d'Economique, Université Laval
2 PSE - Paris School of Economics
3 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
4 ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po)

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home production, match-specific shocks and endogenous divorce. We study nonparametric identification using panel data on marital status, education, family values, wages, and market and non market hours, and we develop a semiparametric estimator. We estimate how much sorting results from time use specialization or homophilic preferences. We estimate how equilibrium marriage formation affects the wage elasticities of market and non market hours. We estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for marriage and quantify the redistributive effect of intra- household resource sharing

Mots clés: Search-matching; sorting; assortative matching; collective labor supply; structural estimation

Domaines: Economies et finances

Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet, Jean-Marc Robin. Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production. 2016. ⟨halshs-01261040⟩