TY - JOUR T1 - Labor Supply Elasticities JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 255 LP - 265 DO - 10.3368/jhr.54.1.1216.8407R1 VL - 54 IS - 1 AU - Garry F. Barrett AU - Daniel S. Hamermesh Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/255.abstract N2 - We measure the impact of measurement error in labor supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. We employ data on hours of work in diaries collected by the American Time Use Survey, 2003–2015, along with the same respondents’ recalled usual work hours. Estimates using the latter yield elasticities that are positively biased. We argue that this bias arises from the salient effects of differences in wage rates on recalled hours. ER -