Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
American Economic Review
vol. 102,
no. 7, December 2012
(pp. 3377-3405)
Abstract
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes a model of Blundell, Chiappori, and Meghir (2005). Adults' preferences depend not only on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on the consumption of domestic goods, which are produced by combining market goods with individuals' time. A new identification result, which uses production shifters, is developed. We apply our model to unique data on Dutch couples with children. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the collective model. (JEL D12, J12, J22)Citation
Cherchye, Laurens, Bram De Rock, and Frederic Vermeulen. 2012. "Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information." American Economic Review, 102 (7): 3377-3405. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.7.3377Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply