The perils of father-reported fertility data for household labour supply models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4809332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James P Vere (0000-0003-0154-8740, University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-243 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324720801904816 |
| PMID | 18587696 |
| OpenAlex | W2048643289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
Many panel data-sets contain father-reported fertility data. Yet, since men tend to underreport past fertility--especially daughters or children from previous marriages--using such data can lead to significantly biased results when estimating household labour supply models. For example, when analysing fertility data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which has a significant retrospective component, fathers' labour supply appears more responsive to the births of sons than to daughters (Lundberg and Rose, Review of Economics and Statistics 84(2): 251-268, 2002). However, no evidence for this differential can be found in a much larger sample of Current Population Survey data from the same population. It is important for researchers to consider the provenance of data on fertility variables and to undertake robustness checks with data reported by women whenever possible
Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Labour economics · Labour supply · Population · Sociology · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global Health Care Issues
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| Citations per year | 0.19 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |