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Abstract
Spending time together with a spouse is a major gain from marriage. We extend the classical collective model of the household to allow for togetherness between spouses. Togetherness takes the form of joint leisure and joint care for children. Using revealed preferences conditions, we find that Dutch households are willing to pay €1.2 per hour -10% of the average wage- to convert private leisure to joint, and €2.1 per hour to convert private childcare to joint. Our results suggest that togetherness is an important component of household time use despite it being overlooked in the economics literature.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Publisher | LISER |
| Number of pages | 60 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Feb 2020 |
Publication series
| Name | Working Papers |
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| Publisher | LISER |
| No. | 2020-01 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2716-7445 |
Keywords
- joint leisure
- joint childcare
- private time use
- collective model
- irregular work
- family labor supply
- revealed preferences
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TIMING: Time: too little, too late or too lone? Theoretical, empirical and experimental investigation of time choices
Cosaert, S., Hamermesch, D., Potoms, T., Theloudis, A., Verheyden, B. & Fallucchi, F.
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
1/09/19 → 31/08/21
Project: Research