Togetherness in the Household

Sam Cosaert; Alexandros Theloudis; Bertrand Verheyden

Togetherness in the Household

Sam Cosaert, Alexandros Theloudis, Bertrand Verheyden

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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.

langue originale	Anglais
Lieu de publication	Esch-sur-Alzette
Éditeur	LISER
Nombre de pages	60
état	Publié - 13 févr. 2020

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Numéro	2020-01
ISSN (Electronique)	2716-7445

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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.
Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER
1/09/19 → 31/08/21
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