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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …
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Most economic models for time allocation ignore constraints on what people can actually do with their time. Economists recently have emphasized the importance of considering prior consumption commitments that constrain behavior. This research develops a new model for time valuation that uses...
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-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using …
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From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …
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1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and … participating in the labor force increases, market work increases and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting … expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to a greater incentive to join the labor force …
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We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage...
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foregone hours are allocated to increased sleep time and increased television watching. Other leisure activities absorb 20% of …
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Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and fertility is high. In an...
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Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in a model in which labor supply elasticities emerge...
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods input into...
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