Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258915 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 01/20
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We develop a theoretical model for the intra-household allocation of time and consumption. The model distinguishes between the partners? joint and private leisure time. We estimate the parameters of our model on a Danish time use survey with information on time allocation and expenditures. The empirical estimation leads to four main conclusions. First, we fi?nd that assignable expenditures vary with female and male wage rates, consistent with the collective model, and we can assign this variation to the Pareto weight being sensitive to relative wages. Second, we fi?nd that men put more weight on both their own private expenditure and composite leisure than women. Third, we fi?nd that joint leisure and individual leisure are not perfect substitutes for partners. Fourth, we observe that both joint and private leisure are independent of the wage distribution. Thus, togetherness is not a substitute for economic factors. Fifth, we ?find that when the female wage goes up, all else equal, her child care hours increase, while her husband?s child care hours decrease.
Subjects: 
Intrahousehold allocation
collective model
joint leisure
JEL: 
D1
D13
J1
J2
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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