The More Kids, The Less Mom’s Divvy: Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

Tomoki Fujii () and Ryuichiro Isikawa ()
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Ryuichiro Isikawa: Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
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No 11-2008, Working Papers from Singapore Management University, School of Economics

Abstract: We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form sepcifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. Our estimation results show that the allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after childbirth. One additional child is associated with at least 2.6 percentage points decrease in women's private expenditure share. Our estimation results reject the income-pooling hypothesis, and show that women are more risk averse than men.

Keywords: Childbirth; Bargaining; Intrahousehold allocation; Relative risk aversion; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 D13 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-10

Published in SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series

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