Intra-Household Allocation of Time to Household Production Activities
Intra-Household Allocation of Time to Household Production Activities

Author: Sven-Olov Daunfeldt

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

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The purpose of this paper is to study the intra-household allocation of time to different household production activities using Swedish cross-sectional household data. The Tobit model is rejected in favor of the Cragg model, suggesting that an empirical model has to take into consideration that allocation of time within the household is determined by two separate processes. Moreover, the results indicate that valuable information concerning the intra-household allocation of time may be missing when household production is defined as the sum of different household activities, but there is no indication that statistically significant effects are wiped out in an aggregated analysis.

Self-Reported Economic Condition and Home Production
Self-Reported Economic Condition and Home Production

Author: Lucia Mangiavacchi

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

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This paper applies a collective model of intra-household welfare distribution using individual self-reported data. The model accounts for household production, and self-reported information on economic condition is used to identify the sharing rule governing the bargaining process in the family. The theoretical framework implies a broad concept of full income, which includes household production as time allocated to domestic activities. We find that self-reported data on economic status are useful in recovering individual shares of household income and that both wages and non-strictly-economic individual variables play an important role in the bargaining process determining the sharing rule in Italy.

Production Within the Household
Production Within the Household

Author: Arleen Leibowitz

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Published: 1974

Total Pages: 0

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The amount of time married women spend in workforce has increased dramatically in the last thirty years. This increase in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production context: women choose not simply between work and leisure but between work in the home, work in the market and leisure. This paper will use time budget data to try to determine how women's education levels affect time allocation to various activities.

Economics of the Family
Economics of the Family

Author: Martin Browning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1107728924

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The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.