Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96710 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8050
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental variables techniques to account for endogeneity. However, panel data often are not available and available instruments often are not satisfactory, making examination of the direct relationship between spouses' time use difficult. Spatial econometric techniques applied to cross-sectional data do not require instrumental variables. This study estimates a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) Model to examine the labor hours of husbands and wives in dual-earner couples using the 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (ASEC). In this model, each spouse is treated as a direct “neighbor” of the other in a spatial weight matrix and non-spouses are treated as non-neighbors. Estimates of both the own- and cross-wage effects on labor hours and an estimate of the direct relationship between spouses' labor hours are obtained.
Subjects: 
employment
intrahousehold allocation of time
own- and cross-wage effects
spatial econometrics
JEL: 
J22
D13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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