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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
population because it ignores public goods and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We …
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Measuring the Values for Time
Palmquist, Raymond B. - 2010
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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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using …
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Leisure, Home Production and Work--The Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited
Gronau, Reuben - 2021
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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Inferring Inequality with Home Production
Boerma, Job - 2018
We revisit the causes, welfare consequences, and policy implications of the dispersion in households' labor market outcomes using a model with uninsurable risk, incomplete asset markets, and home production. Accounting for home production amplifies welfare-based differences across households...
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Taxes and Time Allocation : Evidence from Single Women and Men
Gelber, Alexander M.; Mitchell, Joshua - 2011
Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045896
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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in the Us, 1980-2010
Attanasio, Orazio - 2012
Recent research has documented that income inequality in the United States has increased dramatically over the prior three decades. There has been less of a consensus, however, on whether the increase in income inequality was matched by an equally large increase in consumption inequality. Most...
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Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use
han, jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2022
This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys … most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use these characteristics to predict the distribution of leisure in the … that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322132
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A Strategy for Evaluating the Opportunity Cost of Time Estimates from New Choice Margins
McConnell, K.E. - 2017
Information frictions imply it is reasonable to expect the same commodity, in a given location, to sell for different prices at the same time. Aguiar and Hurst (AH) [2007] demonstrate how the search behavior implied by these price differences can be used estimate the opportunity cost of time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957384
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757952