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Title
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Togetherness in the household
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Author
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Abstract
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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. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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SSRN Electronic Journal
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Source (series)
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Working Paper Series / Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research ; 2020-01
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Publication
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Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
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2020
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DOI
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10.2139/SSRN.3538271
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Volume/pages
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54 p.
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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