TY - JOUR
T1 - Togetherness in the Household
AU - Verheyden, Bertrand
AU - Theloudis, Alexandros
AU - Cosaert, Sam
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Spending time 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 preference conditions and Dutch data over the years 2009–2012, we find that households are willing to pay €1.20 per hour—10 percent of the average wage—to convert private leisure to joint leisure and €2.10 per hour to convert private childcare to joint childcare. Our results suggest togetherness is an important component of household time use despite being over- looked in the economics literature.
AB - Spending time 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 preference conditions and Dutch data over the years 2009–2012, we find that households are willing to pay €1.20 per hour—10 percent of the average wage—to convert private leisure to joint leisure and €2.10 per hour to convert private childcare to joint childcare. Our results suggest togetherness is an important component of household time use despite being over- looked in the economics literature.
KW - Consumer Economics
KW - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
KW - Marriage
KW - Economics of Gender
UR - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20200220
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U2 - 10.1257/mic.20200220
DO - 10.1257/mic.20200220
M3 - Article
SN - 1945-7669
VL - 15
SP - 529
EP - 579
JO - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
JF - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
IS - 1
ER -