Sexual Orientation and Household Decision Making. Same-Sex Couples’ Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices

Sonia Oreffice

No 2008.81, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: I estimate how intra-household bargaining affects gay and lesbian couples’ labor supplies, investigating their similarity to heterosexual decision-making, in a collective household framework. Data from the 2000 US Census show that couples of all types exhibit a significant response to bargaining power shifts, as measured by differences between partners in age or non-labor income. In gay, lesbian, and heterosexual cohabiting couples, a relatively young or rich partner has more bargaining power and hence supplies less labor, the opposite holding for his/her mate. Married couples value the older spouse instead, or the richer. No effects are found for same-sex roommates.

Keywords: Household Decision Making; Same-Sex Couples; Labor Supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10
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