TY - JOUR

T1 - Spending Time and Money within the Household

AU - Browning, Martin

AU - Gørtz, Mette

N1 - JEL Classification: C3;D1;J1;J2

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - We consider, both theoretically and empirically, the allocation of time and money within the household. The research question is whether a married person who enjoys more leisure than their partner also receives more consumption (which seems to indicate the outcome of power within the household) or receives less consumption (which seems to indicate differing intrahousehold preferences). We develop a simple parametric structural model with household production that is tested on survey data. We find that relative wages have an impact on power. For leisure, this effect is dominated by a conventional wage effect, in which the partner who has the higher wage takes less leisure.

AB - We consider, both theoretically and empirically, the allocation of time and money within the household. The research question is whether a married person who enjoys more leisure than their partner also receives more consumption (which seems to indicate the outcome of power within the household) or receives less consumption (which seems to indicate differing intrahousehold preferences). We develop a simple parametric structural model with household production that is tested on survey data. We find that relative wages have an impact on power. For leisure, this effect is dominated by a conventional wage effect, in which the partner who has the higher wage takes less leisure.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Household production

KW - intrahousehold allocation

U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01711.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01711.x

M3 - Journal article

VL - 114

SP - 681

EP - 704

JO - Scandinavian Journal of Economics

JF - Scandinavian Journal of Economics

SN - 0347-0520

IS - 3

ER -