Author: Deborah D. GodwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Husbands' Time Allocation in Household Production
Author: Deborah D. GodwinTime Allocation Adjustment in Married Couple with Children Families
Author: Sheng-shyr ChengPublisher:
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Category : Married people
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The research purposes are to establish a family lifetime labor supply model with emphasis on human resource adjustment and derive the dynamic properties of optimal time allocation profiles of spouses. A sample of married couples who started their families during the period of years 1976-1979 when age 18-35 and who had children after marriage and before 1988 was selected from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The research question whether the human resource adjustment process and the labor supply profiles of married couples vary across levels of education of wives is answered. The empirical results show that family characteristics such as number of children at home, number of relatives who have moved into or out of the home, and the individual spouse's health status affect the opportunity costs of spouses' human resources and, hence, their time allocation over the family life cycle. The major findings are summarized below. First, both the husband and the wife work more hours on their market jobs when they experience higher real hourly wage rates. The effect of wage increases on the market work time allocation is greater for the wife than for the husband. Second, both spouses increase their household production time when there are children aged 1-2 at home. When children grow older, spouses reduce their housework time gradually. However, among more educated spouses who are employed, the wife's housework time displays a U-shaped pattern, whereas the husband's housework time shows an inverted U-shaped pattern with respect to children's ages. Third, the presence of young children under 6 does not affect the market work hours of the less educated husbands. When wives are employed, more educated husbands peak their market work time when children are 3-5 years old. Wives with more than a high school education reduce their market work time when young children under 6 are present at home. Wives with at most a high school education start to increase their market work time as children are older than 3 years old. Fourth, more educated wives can work more time at the market when a relative moves into the home. Wives with less than or a high school education reduce their market work time when the relatives move out of the household. Fifth, husbands reduce both their household production time and market work time if they have more sick hours. Wives with more than a high school education increase household production time when they are sick. Finally, an increase in wage rate reduces individual spouse's marginal utility of wealth, as represented by market work time. For the wife, an increase in the number of relatives moving into the home reduces her evaluation of wealth in terms of market work time. This implies that relatives moving into the home act like an asset to the wife.
The Determinants of Household Time Allocations for Husbands and Wives
Author: Dixie Porter JacksonPublisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
An Economic Analysis of Employed Wives' Time Allocation Decisions
Author: Kathryn StaffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Household Production and Time Allocation, the End of the Male Chauvenist Model
Author: Henriëtte Maassen van den BrinkPublisher:
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Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Allocation of Time to Household Work
Author: Farrell E. BlochPublisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Fair Play
Author: Eve RodskyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525541942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.
Intrahousehold Allocation of Household Production
Author: Fernando Rios-AvilaPublisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
In this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household production in sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses time use survey data to analyze the determinants of time spent on household production by husbands and wives in nuclear families in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa. We assume that the time spent by each spouse is a function of personal and household characteristics. A bivariate Tobit model is used to estimate the marginal impact of a set of key variables that figure recurrently in the literature on time allocation. We observe a high degree of variability in the results for the set of countries, which does not allow us to draw hard general conclusions. We do find some weak evidence that supports time availability and gender ideology theory as well as for the hypothesis that bargaining power plays a role in explaining the intrahousehold allocation of household production.
At Home and at Work
Author: Michael GeerkenPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawing on economic theory, the authors postulate that a family allocates work -- any work, be it housework, doing the shopping, or earning money outside the home -- on the basis of maximum utility to the family unit. Its ideas on utility are derived from such factors as its income, education, ideology. A carefully crafted research study confirms these ideas on the allocation of work and housework. The impact on the quality of family relationships of such allocations is also considered. 'This book is well written and clearly organized...It is sensitive to the limitations of its methodology and full of suggestive theoretical insights.' -- Choice, October 1983 @3`...an exemplary little volume which should be
Effect of Uncertainty and Risk on the Allocation of Time of Married Women
Author: Eileen TrzcinskiPublisher:
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Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
increases in the labor force participation of married women.