Gender Ratio and Intra-Household Collective Decision Process:Evidence from Iranian Household Labor Supply

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Borhani, Fatemeh | 2009

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 40409 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Keshavarz Haddad, Gholamreza
Abstract:
This paper provides and empirical investigation of individual labor supply of Iranian spouses in a collective framework in which gender ratio and plays a central role in the decision process in household. The data set is taken from the socioeconomic characteristics of panel survey over 2001-2004 and ten yearly headcount of Iran. We have conducted the parameters estimation and hypothesis testing by Semykina, A. and Wooldridge, J.M., (2005) generalized procedure of sample selection in panel data model. Our findings explore that females’ labor supply is affected significantly and strongly by the gender ratio, (total number of males over the females in provinces, both in urban and rural areas). Also own wage of couples drives spouse’s individual work hours positively, and sign of cross wage effect is negative and less than the own wage coefficient in absolute value.
Keywords:
Female Labor Supply ; Panel Data ; Gender Ratio ; Collective Model ; Censored Data

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