Human capital, aggregate shocks, and panel data estimation

Sumru Altug () and Robert A. Miller

No 47, Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: This paper analyses how the wage and employment decisions of females are affected by past workforce participation and hours supplied. Our estimation methods exploit the fact that, when markets are complete, the Lagrange multiplier for an agent’s lifetime budget constraint always enters multiplicatively with the prices of (contingent claims to) consumption and leisure. Depending on the properties of the equilibrium price process, it is thus possible to predict the behavior of a wealthy agent by observing that of a poorer person living in a more prosperous world. This provides the key to estimating, nonparametrically, the expectations that enter the calculus of equilibrium decisionmaking, and ultimately the structural parameters which characterize preferences.

Keywords: Wages; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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Working Paper: Human Capital, Aggregate Shocks and Panel Data Estimation (1991)
Working Paper: Human Capital, Aggregate Shocks and Panel Data Estimation (1991)
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