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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Couprie, Helene
• 署名单位: Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02012.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 287-305
• 关键词: collective models

摘要

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.