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Togetherness in the household
Cosaert,Sam Theloudis,Alexandros Verheyden,Bertrand
Cosaert,Sam
Theloudis,Alexandros
Verheyden,Bertrand
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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 overlooked in the economics literature.
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2023-02
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D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis, D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation, J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse, J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth, J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination, J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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Cosaert, S, Theloudis, A & Verheyden, B 2023, 'Togetherness in the household', American Economic Journal-Microeconomics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 529-579. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20200220
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