TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barrett, Garry F.
AU  - Hamermesh, Daniel S.
        TI  - Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data
        PY  - 2016/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10404
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10404
        AB  - We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by the American Time Use Survey, 2003-12, along with the same respondents' recalled usual hours, we show that the latter yield elasticities that are positively biased. We argue that this bias arises from the salience on recalled hours of differences in wage rates.
        KW  - labor supply
KW  - measurement error
KW  - time use
        ER  -