Togetherness in the Household

Bertrand Verheyden; Alexandros Theloudis; Sam Cosaert

doi:10.1257/mic.20200220

Togetherness in the Household

Bertrand Verheyden
, Alexandros Theloudis
, Sam Cosaert

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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.

langue originale	Anglais
Pages (de - à)	529-579
Nombre de pages	51
journal	American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Volume	15
Numéro de publication	1
Les DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20200220
état	Publié - févr. 2023

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Cosaert, S. (PI), Hamermesch, D. (Non Contracting Partner), Potoms, T. (Non Contracting Partner), Theloudis, A. (CoI), Verheyden, B. (CoI) & Fallucchi, F. (CoI)
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