Marriage, Housework and Fairness

Frida Widmalm
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Frida Widmalm: Department of Economics, Postal: Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 1998:22, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different models of household time allocation. Both in the model with agreeing spouses and the model with noncooperative spouses, such a preference has an equalising effect on the division of labour between the partners. In the noncooperative setting, the wife gets better off and the husband worse off in terms of private consumption. I also argue that both the allocation process and the degree of fairness consideration matter for policy outcomes and discuss three policy measures in relation to these two factors.

Keywords: Fairness; housework; unpaid work; household production; household time allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D13 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 1998-10-15
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