Togetherness in the Households

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cosaert, Sam; Verheyden, Bertrand; Theloudis, Alexandros
• 署名单位: University of Antwerp; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7669
• DOI: 10.1257/mic.20200220
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 529-579
• 关键词: revealed preference approach; family time; LABOR; work; consumption; CHILDREN; BEHAVIOR; leisure; identification; division

摘要

Spending time with a spouse is a major gain from marriage. We extend the classical collective model of the household to allow for togetherness between spouses. Togetherness takes the form of joint leisure and joint care for children. Using revealed preference conditions and Dutch data over the years 2009-2012, we find that households are willing to pay euro 1.20 per hour-10 percent of the average wage-to convert private leisure to joint leisure and euro 2.10 per hour to convert private childcare to joint childcare. Our results suggest togetherness is an important component of household time use despite being over-looked in the economics literature.