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Question: How does fertility affect labor supply? That is, how much does a woman's labor supply fall when she has an additional child? In this exercise you will estimate this effect using data for married women from the 1980 U.S. Census.5 The data are available on the textbook Web site www.pearsonhighered.com/ stock Watson in the file Fertility and described in the file Fertifity_Description. The data set contains information on married women aged 21-35 with two or more children.
a. Regress weeks worked on the indicator variable nwrekids using OLS. On average, do women with more than two children work less than women with two children? How much less?
b. Explain why the OLS regression estimated in (a) is inappropriate for estimating the causal effect of fertility (morekids) on labor supply (weeksworked).
c. The data set contains the variable samesex. which is equal to 1 if the first two children are of the same sex (boy-boy or girl-girl) and equal to 0 otherwise. Are couples whose first two children are of the same sex more likely to have a third child? Is the effect large? Is it statistically significant?
d. Explain why samesex is a valid instrument for the instrumental variable regression of weeksworked on morekids.
e. Is samesex a weak instrument?
f. Estimate the regression of weeksworked on morekids using samesex as an instrument. How large is the fertility effect on labor supply?
g. Do the results change when you include the variables ageml , black. hispan, and othrace in the labor supply regression (treating these variable as exogenous)? Explain why or why not.
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