Sweets or Alcohol? The Gender Battle within Japanese Families

Xiangdan Piao

No 10, Research Center for Price Dynamics Working Paper Series from Research Center for Price Dynamics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: In this study, I examine the allocation mechanism within families by using the collective model. The empirical results suggest that a wife's income proportion affects her budget proportion. This connection exists for food and shows that a wife's income proportion is positively correlated with her preferred share of the food budget but is negatively correlated with a husband's preferred share of the food budget. I also explored the changes in a wife's income proportion and budget proportion between 1989 and 2004 and found that the correlation between the two became larger, suggesting that a wife's distribution power strengthened during this period.

Keywords: Collective model; Preference; Income proportion; Budget proportion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 J12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013-10
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