Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer) 1992
Lehrer, Evelyn L. 1992. "The Impact of Children on Married Women's Labor Supply: Black-White Differentials Revisited." Journal of Human Resources 27(3):422-444.
Previous studies documented that the depressing effect of children on labor supply is greater for white wives than for their black counterparts. The present paper examines the hypothesis that this difference by race is less pronounced in the highly educated segments of the population. Multinomial logit estimates of a labor supply model using data from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth are consistent with the hypothesis.
The author is an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago. She is indebted to Barry Chiswick, Carmel Chiswick, and anonymous referees for many helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. Wenhuei Hu provided able research assistance. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in December 1992 through December 1995 from the author at the following address: University of Illinois at Chicago, Economics Department, m/c 144, P.O. Box 4348, Chicago, IL 60680.
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