An Empirical Investigation of the Intra-household Allocation of Time
Author : Melissa Land Koenig
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Divorce
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Author : Melissa Land Koenig
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Divorce
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Author : Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2007
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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.
Author : Julia Bredtmann
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Page : 33 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2010
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ISBN : 9783867882279
Author : J. A. Molina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1441994319
Significant recent changes in the structure and composition of households make the study of the economic relationships within the household of particular interest for academics and policy-makers. In this context, Household Economic Behaviors, through its focus on theoretical and empirical chapters on a range of economic behaviors within the household, provides a new and timely viewpoint. Following the Introduction and one or two surveys which give a general background, the volume includes theoretical and empirical perspectives on allocation of available time within the household, monetary and non-monetary transfers between household members, and intra-household bargaining.
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521457224
Constituting the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory, a diverse group of social scientists address the problems, principles and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals.
Author : Martin Browning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521791596
This book provides a comprehensive, modern, and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. It is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
Author : Gee Young Oh
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2021
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This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically explores the relationships between intra-household time allocation choices and gender role bias, and the second chapter provides a structural model that rationalizes the empirical findings to study its policy implications. The third chapter explores the relationship between intra-household consumption distributions and subjective wellbeing of each gender. In the first two chapters, I study how gender role bias affects the time allocations of heterosexual working couples in labor, home production, and leisure, and the ramifications for distributional effects of policies that change effective wages. Using detailed time use data from Mexico and the U.K., I document that among working couples in both countries, as a female's relative wage increases, her relative labor hours decrease, and her relative home production hours increase. The pattern is seemingly puzzling but it can be rationalized if couples face disutility for breaking a social norm as females' share of household earnings increases. I then build a structural household model that incorporates gender role bias. Fitting the model to the U.K. data on working couples, I find that on average, disutility arising from gender role bias starts increasing when a female's earning share exceeds 0.45, that is, when she is nearly the breadwinner. Furthermore, I construct a measure of household-level bias using responses to survey questions on bias, and find that in more biased households, the disutility starts increasing when the female's earning share is lower. Using the model, I predict the effects of a fiscal policy that disproportionately increases females' effective wages. In particular, I find that when a given policy increases females' wages by 10 percent, the policy's effect on female labor supply is overestimated by 5 percentage points if gender role bias is not taken into account. In the third chapter, I study how intra-household inequality affects individuals' wellbeing where each member has the bargaining power to secure more household resources to be allocated for his/her interest. Unlike the existing literature that focuses on `absolute' resource levels, I explore another channel through which unequal intra-household resource distribution can affect an individual's wellbeing: by affecting `relative' resource as compared to the other household member. From detailed Mexican household-level survey data, I estimate an individual's resource level through a structural household model and explore its relationship with happiness, using self-reported subjective wellbeing as a proxy for happiness. I find that there is a negative correlation between relative resource levels and happiness for adult females. The negative correlation is consistent with studies that find domestic violence rates are higher for empowered females, or working females, who also consume more than those less empowered. However, the relation is insignificant for adult males.
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Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 9036101336
Author : Lawrence Haddad
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
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Author : Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : International Food Policy Research Insitute
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
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Surveying a broad body of theory and evidence, the contributors examine the many social and cultural factors that influence decisions at the family and household level about the allocation of time, income, assets, and other resources.