Non-Market Time and Household Well-Being

Christos Koulovatianos (), Carsten Schröder () and Ulrich Schmidt

Vienna Economics Papers from University of Vienna, Department of Economics

Abstract: A distinguishing feature among households is whether adult members work or not, since the employment status a?ects a household’s available time for home activities. Using a survey method in two countries, Belgium and Germany, we provide household incomes that retain the level of well-being across di?erent family types, distinguished by family size and employment status of adults. Our tests support that specialization in home production and childcare-time costs are important determinants of household well-being. Estimates of child costs relative to an adult are higher for households that are time-constrained (all adults in the household work), and also higher for poorer households.

JEL-codes: D13 J22 C42 D31 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Papers.Econ/RePEc/vie/viennp/vie0507.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Non-market time and household well-being (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vie:viennp:0507

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Vienna Economics Papers from University of Vienna, Department of Economics
Series data maintained by Paper Administrator ().