Home production – Enjoying the process or the product?

Mette Gørtz

electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2011, vol. 8, issue 1, 85-109

Abstract: This paper tests a household production model on data from a Danish time use survey from 2001 using GMM 3SLS. Household production includes “process benefits” accruing from the pleasure of undertaking certain housework tasks. I find no significant evidence of “process benefits”. An identification problem arises from the situation where households alternatively attach extra value to consuming home-produced goods. The outcome of these two types of benefits may in certain cases be observationally equivalent.

Keywords: Household production; process benefits; consumption benefits; GMM 3SLS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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