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Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

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  • Laurens Cherchye
  • Bram De Rock
  • Frederic Vermeulen

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We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults’ individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on the consumption of domestic goods, which are produced by combining goods bought at the market with individuals’ time. We apply our model to new and unique data on Dutch couples with children. The data contains detailed information about the spouses’ time use and the intrahousehold allocation of all expenditures. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the collective model. We obtain interesting (and plausible) empirical results. Spouses’ preferences depend on the consumption of domestically produced goods (including children’s welfare). Next, Pareto weights depend on variables like the individual wages and the share in the household’s nonlabor income. Finally, and perhaps surprisingly, we do not find evidence that mothers care more for their children than fathers.

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Paper provided by ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles in its series ULB Institutional Repository with number 2013/131705.

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Date of creation: 2012
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Publication status: Published in: American economic review (2012) v.102,p.3377-3405
Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/131705

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  1. Browning, M. & Bourguignon, F. & Chiappori, P.A. & Lechene, V., 1992. "Incomes and Outcomes: A structural Model of Intra-Household Allocation," DELTA Working Papers 92-23, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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  1. Laurens CHERCHYE & Bram DE ROCK & Arthur LEWBEL & Frederic VERMEULEN, 2012. "Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models," Center for Economic Studies - Discussion papers ces12.05, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.
  2. Jaime Andres Sarmiento Espinel, 2012. "Children and non-participation in a model of collective household labor supply," Serie documentos de trabajo del Centro de Estudios Económicos 2012-14, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos.
  3. Sabrina Bruyneel & Laurens Cherchye & Sam Cosaert & Bram De Rock & Siegfried Dewitte, 2012. "Are the Smart Kids More Rational ?," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2012-050, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
  4. Laurens CHERCHYE & Bram DE ROCK & Jeroen SABBE & Ewout VERRIEST, 2010. "Commitment in intertemporal household consumption: a revealed preference analysis," Center for Economic Studies - Discussion papers ces10.33, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.
  5. James Fenske & Vellore Arthi, 2013. "Labour and Health in Colonial Nigeria," Economics Series Working Papers Number 114, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  6. Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, 2012. "Parental investment in their children’s education," Serie documentos de trabajo del Centro de Estudios Económicos 2012-09, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos.
  7. Angelov, Nikolay & Johansson, Per & Lindahl, Erica, 2013. "Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?," Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies 2013:3, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
  8. Angelov, Nikolay & Johansson, Per & Lindahl, Erica, 2013. "Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?," IZA Discussion Papers 7181, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  9. Martina Menon & Elisa Pagani & Federico Perali, 2012. "A Characterization of Collective Individual Expenditure Functions," Working Papers 20/2012, University of Verona, Department of Economics.

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