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Title: The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Reply to Mincer and Ofek
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1. Heckman, James J.
Willis, Robert J.
The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Reply to Mincer and Ofek
Journal of Political Economy 87,1 (February 1979): 203-211.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1832219
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Children; Marriage; Research Methodology; Work Experience

The authors defend and qualify their earlier article, "A Beta-Logistic Model" [JPE, 85, 1 (February l977): 27-58] which had been questioned by Mincer and Ofek. Heckman and Willis estimate the lifetime probabilities of labor force participation of married women, conditional not only upon marital status but also upon variables like children, income, and local labor market conditions. They summarize corrections in their statistical model, and suggest that assumptions both in their own earlier work and in that of Mincer and Ofek were incorrectly based.
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Heckman, James J. and Robert J. Willis. "The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Reply to Mincer and Ofek." Journal of Political Economy 87,1 (February 1979): 203-211.