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Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

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  • Chris van Klaveren

    () (University of Amsterdam)

  • Bernard M.S. van Praag

    () (University of Amsterdam)

  • Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink

    () (University of Amsterdam)

Abstract

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility functions of the male and the female. The empirical research that has been done is mainly focused on testing and refuting the unitary model. Moreover, in the bulk of time allocation literature the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is estimated on a sub-sample of the British Household Panel Survey, consisting of two-earner households.

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Date of creation: 21 Oct 2005
Date of revision: 06 Apr 2006
Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20050096

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Keywords: Collective household models; Labor supply; Time allocation; Intra-household;

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