Bargaining over Time Allocation: Economic Modeling and Econometric Investigation of Time Use within Families

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Time allocation in a bargaining family.- 1.2 Time use.- 1.3 The family as an economic institution.- 1.4 A reader’s guide.- 2 Theories on intrafamily time allocation.- 2.1 The unitary model.- 2.2 Under critique.- 2.3 Bargaining models.- 2.3.1 Cooperative bargaining.- 2.3.2 Non-cooperative bargaining.- 2.3.3 Dynamic models.- 2.3.4 Summing up.- 3 Empirical evidence on intrafamily time allocation.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Testing for unitary income pooling.- 3.3 Testing for Slutsky symmetry.- 3.4 Testing for Pareto efficiency.- 3.5 Testing for the impact of EEPs and decision-making power.- 3.6 A starting point for further research.- 4 The strategic aspect of female labor supply.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 A dynamic bargaining model.- 4.2.1 Implications.- 4.2.2 Discussion of the theoretical results.- 4.3 Empirical implementation of the bargaining effect of labor supply.- 4.3.1 The virtual conflict payoff.- 4.3.2 Data set and sample characteristics.- 4.3.3 Female labor force participation with virtual conflict payoffs.- 4.3.4 Bargaining variables.- 4.3.5 Estimation procedure.- 4.3.6 Empirical findings.- 4.4 Conclusions.- 4.5 Further research.- 5 A panel-econometric analysis of the division of housework time.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The time use of employed couples.- 5.3 Theoretical approaches to intrafamily time allocation.- 5.4 The division of housework time: estimation results.- 5.4.1 Pooled sample.- 5.4.2 Fixed effects.- 5.4.3 Random effects.- 5.4.4 Mixed specification.- 5.5 Conclusions.- 5.6 Appendix.- 6 Leisure — A model on private provision of family public goods.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The model.- 6.3 The Stackelberg game.- 6.4 Conclusions.- 7 The leisure gap between working parents.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Basic facts of intrafamily distribution of leisure.- 7.3 The distribution of leisure as an alternating offers game.- 7.3.1 The setting.- 7.3.2 The structure of the game.- 7.4 The distribution of leisure — estimation results.- 7.5 Conclusions.- 8 Resume.- 8.1 Principal findings.- 8.2 Policy implications.- 8.3 The next step: cooperative conflicts in a qualitative bargaining framework.- List of figures.- List of tables.- References.