Time allocation within the Family: Welfare implications of life in a couple

Author: Couprie, Hélène

Source: The Economic Journal, Volume 117, Number 516, January 2007 , pp. 287-305(19)

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Abstract:

A collective model of leisure demand, generalised to the production of a household public good, is estimated on the British Household Panel Survey. The sharing rule is identified by using an original parametric framework based on the change of family status: from single-living to couple or from couple to single-living. Womens' ratios of private household expenditures are 40% on average. The level of intra-household inequality appears highly dependent on the intra-household wage gap. Omitting household production in the model would overestimate the ratio by 7 percentage points on average.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02012.x

Affiliations: 1: Université Toulouse I

Publication date: 2007-01-01