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Title: Expected Income and Labor Market Choices of US Married Couples: A Locally Weighted Regression Approach

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This paper applies a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (loess) method to estimate the spatially heterogeneous wages of demographic groups of workers across precisely defined US labor markets. We estimate a location choice model using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) using these estimates of labor market specific wages for men and women as determinants of their place of residence. We compare estimates of this model to a model using more aggregated measures of wages and locations from CPS. We show that potential wages based on these more refined definitions of labor markets and demographic groups provide more explanatory power in a simple migration model than do those based upon less detailed definitions of labor markets and demographic groups.

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Authors: Mroz, Thomas A.; Li, Guo

Periodical (Full): Reginal Science and Urban Economics

Issue: 6

Volume: 43

Pages: 985-995

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage

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