labor supply elasticities were small, recent work has identified three key reasons that the aggregate elasticity may be …

There is a long standing controversy over the magnitude of the Frisch labor supply elasticity. Macro economists using … of the OLS bias, which is negative. As a result, Frisch elasticity estimates near zero appear (spuriously) precise, while … positive Frisch elasticity. Fortunately, the Anderson-Rubin (AR) test does not su ff er from this power asymmetry problem. The …