Sexual orientation and household decision making. Same-sex couples' balance of power and labor supply choices

Sonia Oreffice

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

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 shows 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: Same-sex couples; Household bargaining power; Labor Supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2009-03
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