Dooley, Martin D. 1982. "Labor Supply and Fertility of Married Women: An Analysis with Grouped and Individual Data from the 1970 U.S. Census." Journal of Human Resources 17(4):499-532.

This study uses 1970 Census data at three different levels of aggregation to estimate a model of the labor supply and fertility of married women. Estimates with both the individual Public Use Sample observations and the published SMSA average data generally agree with findings from three previous Censuses and alternative data sources, especially in the case of labor supply. Direct grouping of the Public Use Sample observations by SMSA leads to very different labor supply estimates. Further analysis shows that there may be substantial biases in the estimates derived with published SMSA average data from the 1970 and previous Censuses.

The author is a member of the Department of Economics, McMaster University.
* Support for this research was provided by the NIMH, the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Colby College. Valuable comments were provided by Randall Brown, Glen Cain, David Crawford, Arthur Goldberger, James Heckman, and V. Joseph Hotz.

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