Togetherness in the Household

Sam Cosaert, Alexandros Theloudis and Bertrand Verheyden

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, 529-79

Abstract: Spending time with a spouse is a major gain from marriage. We extend the classical collective model of the household to allow for togetherness between spouses. Togetherness takes the form of joint leisure and joint care for children. Using revealed preference conditions and Dutch data over the years 2009–2012, we find that households are willing to pay €1.20 per hour—10 percent of the average wage—to convert private leisure to joint leisure and €2.10 per hour to convert private childcare to joint childcare. Our results suggest togetherness is an important component of household time use despite being over- looked in the economics literature.

JEL-codes: D12 D13 J12 J13 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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