Female Labor Supply as Insurance against Idiosyncratic Risk

By O. Attanasio, Hamish Low, Virginia Sánchez-Marcos. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Inequality and the Lifecycle (2011, unknown): “…over the life-cycle (see, for example, Blundell, Browning, and Meghir (1994) or Attanasio et al. (1999)), and that joint labor supply decisions or issues surrounding intrahousehold allocations are important (see, for example, Heckman and MaCurdy (1980) or Attanasio, Low, and Sánchez-Marcos (2005)).”
Families in Macroeconomics (2016, unknown): “Attanasio et al. (2008) study the life-cycle labor supply of three cohorts of American women, born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Their model allows for a number of potential determinants of labor supply, including changes in the gender wage gap, the number and cost of children, and changes in the ”
Husband’s Unemployment and Wife’s Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe (2018, unknown): “These results suggest that in Europe, marriage (or cohabitation) still functions as an intra-household risk-sharing mechanism to smooth inter-temporal income shocks (Attanasio et al. 2005; Ortigueira and Siassi 2013).”
Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model (2008, methodology): “Unfortunately it is only available since 1980 on a consistent basis.(4) We consider households observed between 1980-1984 and between 1998-1999, where the reference person or the spouse is a working woman with children between 0 and 7.”
Employment transitions of women in India: A panel analysis (2019, background): “Female labour supply may increase as a coping strategy to reduce the uncertainty in earnings caused by lower rainfall (Attanasio et al., 2005; Bhalotra and Umana-Aponte, 2010).”
Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom (2012, background): “This view is related to the view of women’s labor supply as an insurance mechanism for households (Attanasio et al., 2005).”
The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility (2016, unknown): “Recent dynamic models on female labor supply with a focus on paid child care, including Attanasio et al. (2008), Haan and Wrohlich (2011), Domeij and Klein (2013), Fehr and Ujhelyiova (2012), and Guner et al. (2014) are prone to the same critique: all assume that each hour of maternal work requires ”
What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? (2015, background): “Households, especially in developing countries, can use women’s labor supply to deal with negative income shocks or uncertainty (Attanasio et al. 2005; Bhalotra and Umaña-Aponte 2010).”