How Much Consumption Insurance in Bewley Models with Endogenous Family Labor Supply?

Chunzan Wu and Dirk Krueger

No 24472, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. With additively separable preferences, 43% of male and 23% of female permanent wage shocks pass through to consumption, compared to the empirical estimates of 34% and 20%. With non-separable preferences the model predicts more consumption insurance, with pass-through rates of 29% and 16%. Most of the consumption insurance against permanent male wage shocks is provided through the labor supply response of the female earner.

JEL-codes: D15 D31 E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
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