Labor Force Participation and Fertility: A Social Analysis of Their Antecedents and Simultaneity
研究了172对已婚夫妇的劳动力参与和生育率关系，发现两者受性别角色规范、对妻子工作的态度及子女价值共同影响，并比较了社会心理模型与社会学模型的差异。
The nature of the relationship between labor force participation and fertility is examined for 172 families comprising a marriage cohort. The results show that labor force participation and fertility are spuriously related in that they are under the common influence of sex-role norms, attitudes toward the wife working, and the value or importance of children for the spouses. Comparisons are made among social psychological models, wherein either the husband or wife provides information as they perceive their relationship, and a sociological model wherein group constructs are formed with the husband and wife acting as informants on the pattern of norms guiding their relation. A structural equation methodology is employed to better model measurement error and errors in equations simultaneously.