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Time Allocation Within the Family: Welfare Implications of Life in a Couple

Abstract

A collective model of leisure demand, generalised to the production of a household public good, is estimated on the British Household Panel Survey. The sharing rule is identified by using an original parametric framework based on the change of family status: from single-living to couple or from couple to single-living. Womens' ratios of private household expenditures are 40% on average. The level of intra-household inequality appears highly dependent on the intra-household wage gap. Omitting household production in the model would overestimate the ratio by 7 percentage points on average.
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hal-03394684 , version 1 (22-10-2021)

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Hélène Couprie. Time Allocation Within the Family: Welfare Implications of Life in a Couple. The Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (516), pp.287-305. ⟨10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02012.x⟩. ⟨hal-03394684⟩
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