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The More Kids, The Less Mom’s Divvy: Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

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  • Tomoki Fujii

    (School of Economics, Singapore Management University)

  • Ryuichiro Isikawa

    (Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba)

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We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form sepcifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. Our estimation results show that the allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after childbirth. One additional child is associated with at least 2.6 percentage points decrease in women's private expenditure share. Our estimation results reject the income-pooling hypothesis, and show that women are more risk averse than men.

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  • Tomoki Fujii & Ryuichiro Isikawa, 2008. "The More Kids, The Less Mom’s Divvy: Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation," Working Papers 11-2008, Singapore Management University, School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:siu:wpaper:11-2008
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    Keywords

    Childbirth; Bargaining; Intrahousehold allocation; Relative risk aversion; Japan;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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