Time allocation within the family: welfare implications of life in a couple

Hélène Couprie ()

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the household decision-making process leading to the allocation of time and consumption in the family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the production of a household public good. For the first time in such a framework the sharing rule conditional on public expenditures is identified by woman's change of family status: from single-living to couple or from couple to single-living. Welfare implications are elaborated. Woman's share of household's private expenditures appears to be on average 45%.

Keywords: collective model; public good; domestic production; sharing rule identification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 D13 D63 C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-12-16
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