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Spousal Complementarity in Home Production

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  • Michael A. Leeds
  • Peter von Allmen

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. Economists have increasingly recognized the growing role of married women in the labor market by treating the labor supply decisions of married couples as joint decisions. However, they have yet to apply the same reasoning to home production. We build a more complete model of household time allocation that consists of a system of simultaneous equations estimating hours of labor supply and home production. Using data on white couples from Wave XXV of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that working wives act as if their husbands are substitutes for home production while other wives do not. Husbands’ responses to their wives’ behavior depends upon whether children are present.

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  • Michael A. Leeds & Peter von Allmen, 2004. "Spousal Complementarity in Home Production," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 63(4), pages 795-811, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:63:y:2004:i:4:p:795-811
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00317.x
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