Readings
II. Working men and women in historical and international context and the economics of home production
Mammen, Kristin and Christina Paxson. 2000.
“Women's Work and Economic Development.”Journal of Economic Perspectives 14
(Fall): 141-164.
Cowan,
Ruth Schwartz. 1976. “The "Industrial
Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change
in the 20th Century.” Technology and Culture 17 (January): 1-23.
Costa, Dora L. 2000. “From Mill Town to Board
Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14
(Fall): 101-122.
III. Theory and evidence of marriage and family formation
Dora Costa, “Power Couples: Changes in the Locational
Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990”, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
2000, 115:1287-1315
Stevenson, Betsey and Justin Wolfers. 2007. “Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 27-52.
Fryer, Roland G. Jr. 2007. “Guess Who’s Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 71-90.
Black, Dan A., Seth G. Sanders and Lowell J. Taylor. 2007. “The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 53-70.
Mechoulan, Stèphane. 2011. “The External Effects of Black Male Incarceration on Black Females.” Journal of Labor Economics 29(1):1-36.
Wei, Shang-Jin and Xiabo Zhang. 2011. “The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China.” Journal of Political Economy 119(3): 511-564.
Watson, Tara, and Sara McLanahan. 2011. “Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status.” Journal of Human Resources 46(3): 482-517.
Buckles, Kasey, Melanie Guldi, and Joseph Price. 2011. “Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements.” Journal of Human Resources 46(3): 539-567.
IV. Intergenerational transmission of wealth and poverty
Fryer, Roland G. Jr. and Steven D. Levitt. 2004. “The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (3): 767-805.
Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov. 2006. “Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation.” In E. A. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds. Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
V. Female labor supply at home and abroad
Martha
Bailey, “More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom
on Women’s Life Cycle Labor Supply,” Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Feb. 2006, 121:289-320
Mark
Aguiar and Erik Hurst, “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of
Time over Five Decades,” Quarterly Journal of Economic, Aug 2007,
122:969-1006
Anderson, Deborah J., Melissa Binder and Kate
Krause. 2003. “The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity,
Work Effort, and Work Schedule Flexibility.” Industrial and Labor
Relations Review 56(January): 273-294.
Folbre, Nancy and Julie A. Nelson . 2000.
“For Love or Money -- Or Both?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14
(Fall): 123-140.
Labor supply data
Bureau
of Labor Statistics. “Variations in Time Use at Stages of the Life Cycle.” Monthly
Labor Review 128 (September 2005): 38-45.
Cromartie,
Stella “Labor force status of families: a visual essay” Monthly Labor
Review 130 (July-August, 2007): 35-41.
Cohany,
Sharon and Emy Sok, “Trends in labor force participation of mothers with
children and infants” Monthly Labor Review 130 (February 2007):9-16
Allard, Mary Dorinda and Marianne Janes. 2008. “Time Use of Working Parents: A Visual Essay.” Monthly Labor Review 131 (June): 3-14.
VI. Models of Discrimination
Taste discrimination
Arrow, Kenneth. 1974. The Theory of Discrimination
in 0. Ashenfelter and A. Rees, eds., Discrimination in Labor Markets Princeton University
Press.
Becker, Gary S., The Economics
of Discrimination, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971).
Charles, Kerwin Kofi and Jonathan Guryan. 2008. “Prejudice aqnd Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination.” Journal of Political Economy 116(5):773-809.
Employer
Black, Sandra E. and Elizabeth Brainerd.
2004. “Importing Equality? Thje Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination.”
Industrial & Labor Relations Review: 57 (July): 540-559.
Price, Joseph and Justin Wolfers. 2010. “Racial Discrimination by NBA Referees.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(4): 1859-1887.
Employee
Levitt, Steven D. 2004. “Testing Theories
of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link.” The Journal of Law
and Economics, 47 (October): 431-452.
Plug, Erik, Dinand Webbink, and Nick Martin. 2011. “Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation.” IZA Discussion Paper #5772
Customer
Nardinelli, Clark and Curtis Simon.
1990. “Customer Racial Discrimination
in the Market for Memorabilia: The Case of Baseball.” The Quarterly Journal
of Economics 105 (August):575-595.
Holzer, Harry and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt.
1998. “Customer Discrimination
and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers.” The Quarterly Journal
of Economics 113 (August):835-867.
Borjas, George J. and Stephen G. Bronars.
1989. “Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment.” Journal of Political
Economy 97 (June): 581-605.
Audit studies debate
Yinger, John. 2000. “Evidence on Discrimination in
Consumer Markets.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (Spring):
23-40.
Ladd, Helen F. 1998. “Evidence on Discrimination in
Mortgage Lending.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (Spring):
41-62.
Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan,
“Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment
on Labor Market Discrimination,” American Economic Review, Sept
2004, 94:991- 1013
Darity,
William A. Darity Jr. and Patrick L. Mason. 1998. “Evidence on Discrimination
in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender.” The Journal of Economic
Perspectives 12 (Spring): 63-90.
James J. Heckman. 1998. “ Detecting Discrimination.” The
Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (Spring): 101-116.
Statistical discrimination
E. S. Phelps, “The Statistical Theory of
Racism and Sexism,” American Economic Review, 1972, 62:659-661
Aigner and Cain, “Statistics Theories of Discrimination
in Labor Markets,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1977,
30:175-187
Pinkston, Joshua C. 2006. “A Test of Screening
Discrimination with Employer Learning.” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review 59(January): 267-284.
Crowding
Schelling, Thomas. 1978 Micromotives and Macrobehavior Chpt. 4
Internal labor markets
Stoll, Michael A., Steven Raphael, and Harry J.
Holzer. 2004. “Black Job Applicants and the Hiring Officer’s Race. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 57 (January): 267-287.
Pekkarinen, Tuomas and Juhana
Vartiainen. 2006. “Gender Differences in Promotion on a Job Ladder: Evidence
from Finnish Metalworkers. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 59(January):
285-301.
Arthur, Michelle M. and Alison Cook. 2004.
“Taking Stock of Work-Family Initiatives: How Announcements of ‘Family-Friendly’
Human Resource Decisions Affect Shareholder Value.” Industrial & Labor
Relations Review: 57 (July): 599-613.
VII. Empirical Evidence
a. Differences in Occupations,
Education and Earnings
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko,
“Homecoming of American
Women”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006,
20:133-156.
Collins, Susan M. 2000. “Minority Groups
in the Economics Profession.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(Winter):133-148.
b. The Human Capital Model
c. Earnings Functions and
Measuring Discrimination
VIII. Cases Evidence on discrimination
a. Women
Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2000. “Gender Differences
in Pay.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (Fall): 75-99.
Blau,
Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2006. “The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the
1990s: Slowing Convergence. ” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60(October):
45-66.
b. Blacks
Couch,
K and MC Daly. 2002. “Black-White Wage Inequality in the 1990s: a Decade
of Progress.” Economic Inquiry 40 (January):31-41
Heckman,
James J., Thomas M. Lyons, and Petra E Todd. 2000. “Understanding Black-White
Wage Differentials, 1960-1990.” American Economic Review 90 (May):
344-349.
Donohue, John J. and James Heckman. 1991. “Continuous
Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic
Status of Blacks.” Journal of Economic Literature 29 (December):
1603-1643
c. Immigrants
Lubotsky, Darren. 2007 “Chutes or Ladders?
A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings.” Journal of Political Economy.
115 (October): 820-867.
d. Hispanics
Fry, Richard and B. Lindsay Lowell. 2006. “The Wage
Structure of Latino-Origin Groups across Generations.” Industrial
Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 45(April):147-168
Mora, Marie M. and Alberto Davilla. 2006. “A
Note on the Changes in the Relative Wages of LEP Hispanic Men between
1980 and 2000” .” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and
Society 45(April):169-172.
e. Homosexuality
Antecol, Heather, Anneke Jong
and Michael Steinberger. 2008. The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role
Of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital.” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review 61(July):518-543.
Black,
Dan A., Hoda R, Makar, Seth G. Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor. 2003. "The
Earnings Effects of Sexual Orientation." Industrial & Labor
Relations Review: 56 (April):449-469.
f. Premarket Differences
Willingness to compete
Niederle,
Muriel and Lise Vesterlund. 2007 “Do Women Shy Away from Competition?
Do Men Compete Too Much?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (August):
1067-1102.
Price, Joseph. 2008. “Gender Differences in the
Response to Competition.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61(April):
320-333.
Personality
Mueller, Gerrit and Erik Plug. 2006. “Estimating
the Effect of Personality on Male and Female Earnings.” Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 60(October): 3-22.
Height
Persico,
Nicola, Andrew Postlewaite and Dan Silverman. 2004. "The Effect
of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height" Journal
of Political Economy. 112 (October): 1019-1053.
g. Looks
Daniel
Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle, “Beauty and the Labor Market,” American
Economic Review, Dec. 1994, 84:1174-1194
IX. Government Antidiscrimination
Policy: Aims and Impacts
Antecol,
Heather, and Deborah Cobb-Clark. 2004. “The Changing Nature of Employment-Related
Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government, 1978-1994.” Industrial and
Labor Relations Review 57(April): 443-461.
Collins, William J. 2003. “The Labor
Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960.” Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 56(January): 244-272.
Neumark,
David and Wendy A. Stock. 2006. “The Labor Market Effects of Sex and
Race Discrimination Laws.” Economic Inquiry 44(July):385-419