Why do families actually pool their income? Evidence from Denmark

Jens Bonke and Hans Uldall-Poulsen

Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, vol. 5, issue 2, 113-128

Abstract: This paper analyzes income-pooling by using a unique Danish data set that includes questions on income pooling among 1,696 couples. The analyses show that most Danish households use some kind of income pooling and that the proportion of income pooled varies considerably according to individual characteristics (age, education, occupation, past partners, upbringing) and household characteristics (household income, duration of marriage, location of residence and the existence of public goods, including children). However, when all variables are evaluated in a common model, the duration of marriage and the existence of children predominantly affect the likelihood of income pooling. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

Keywords: Household production and intra-household allocation; Personal income; wealth and their distributions; Methodology for collecting; estimating; and organizing microeconomic data; D13; D31; C81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s11150-007-9010-5

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