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On parental care and home production

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  • Xiaoyan Chen Youderian

    (Xavier University)

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I build a simple model on parental care and home production to consider an application of the Alchian-Allen theorem in time allocation problems. This theorem predicts that an increase in a parent's wage should lower the relative demand of parental care time to housework time. However, empirical studies find the opposite result. My model shows that the complementarity between parental time and education spending can explain this paradox.

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  • Xiaoyan Chen Youderian, 2018. "On parental care and home production," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 38(1), pages 520-527.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-18-00119
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    Keywords

    Time allocation; the Alchian-Allen Theorem; complementarity between parental time and education spending;
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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education

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