Couples’ time together: complementarities in production versus complementarities in consumption |
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Authors: | Hani Mansour Terra McKinnish |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver and IZA, CB 181, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO, 80217, USA 2. Department of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, UBC 256, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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Abstract: | Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household public goods and joint time consumption). This paper uses the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003 to 2011 to test whether couples that engage in less specialization (are more similar in hours of market work) spend more time together. We find that among married couples without young children, those with a greater difference in weekly hours of work between husband and wife spend less time together on non-working weekend days. Importantly, we find that this relationship is quite symmetric between couples in which the husband works greater hours and couples in which the wife works greater hours. We do not find evidence of a relationship between specialization and couple time together among couples with young children. |
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