On a log-symmetric quantile tobit model applied to female labor supply data

The study of female labor supply has been a topic of relevance in the economic literature. Generally, the data are left-censored and the classic tobit model has been extensively used in the modeling strategy. This model, however, assumes normality for the error distribution and is not recommended for data with positive skewness, heavy-tails and heteroscedasticity, as is the case of female labor supply data. Moreover, it is well-known that the …