Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82942 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1998:22
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different models of household time allocation. Both in the model with agreeing spouses and the model with noncooperative spouses, such a preference has an equalising effect on the division of labour between the partners. In the noncooperative setting, the wife gets better off and the husband worse off in terms of private consumption. I also argue that both the allocation process and the degree of fairness consideration matter for policy outcomes and discuss three policy measures in relation to these two factors.
Subjects: 
Fairness
housework
unpaid work
household production
household time allocation
JEL: 
C72
D13
D63
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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