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This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...
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Using Mexican data on household time use and consumption, we find significant substitution between goods and time in … home production and different elasticities of substitution for different household commodities. Adding these findings to …
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …
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results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model …
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In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The … equally weighted in the household utility function; (3)Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are explanatory … for how individualutilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female's preference forhousehold …
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some economic models of household decision-making. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make …
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household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different …
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Since it is still unclear to what extent time allocation retrospectively reported in questionnaires, reflects people's actual behavior, examining the accuracy of responses to time use survey questions is of crucial importance. We analyze the congruence of time use information assessed through...
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investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption … together by partners in the same household has become increasingly crucial in the American family. …
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We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...
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