This article was partly written in ISER, University of Essex, CAM, University of Copenhagen, and during a post-doctoral year in CIRPEE, Université Laval. It is also part of my PhD defended in GREQAM, Université de la Méditerranée. Financial support from the Marie Curie Fellowship Association, the CIRPEE and the Canada Research Chair in Social Policies and Human Resources are gratefully aknowledged. The BHPS data were made available through the Data Archive, University of Essex. I address special thanks to John Ermisch, Martin Browning, Mette Erjnaes, Bernard Fortin, Bo Honoré, Nicolas Gravel, anonymous referees and the members of my PhD committee for stimulating research comments.
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Time allocation within the Family: Welfare implications of life in a couple†
Article first published online: 19 JAN 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02012.x
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Couprie, H. (2007), Time allocation within the Family: Welfare implications of life in a couple. The Economic Journal, 117: 287–305. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02012.x
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- Issue published online: 19 JAN 2007
- Article first published online: 19 JAN 2007
- Submitted: 19 November 2002 Accepted: 9 March 2006
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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.