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

Hélène Couprie (1, 2)

1 THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications
2 UCP - Université de Cergy Pontoise

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.

Mots clés: home production; sharing rule; public good; leisure demand; intra-household inequality

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

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⟩