Household Sharing and Commitment: Evidence from Panel Data on Individual Expenditures and Time Use

Jeremy Lise; Ken Yamada

doi:10.1093/restud/rdy066

Household Sharing and Commitment: Evidence from Panel Data on Individual Expenditures and Time Use

Jeremy Lise, Ken Yamada

Economics (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

In this article, we analyse the dynamics of intra-household allocations using unique panel data on individual-specific consumption expenditures and time used for leisure, market production, and home production. Cross-sectional differences at the time of marriage in expected wage profiles between a husband and wife strongly affect the allocation of private consumption expenditures and time use by households in the cross section. There are substantial gender asymmetries in these allocations. Even for households where the husband and wife have identical wages, the private consumption expenditures for the wife are about half those for the husband. Within a given household over time, shocks to wages lead households to shift the relative weights in favour of the spouse receiving the favourable shock. Additionally, we find that households adjust the weights in response to large but not to small shocks; the adjustment to the weights is twice as large in the year leading up to a divorce; and adjustments are more frequent in dual- than in single-earner households. We interpret the data using a dynamic collective model of the household with potentially limited commitment.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2184-2219
Number of pages	36
Journal	Review of Economic Studies
Volume	86
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy066
State	Published - Oct 1 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Family, Zeuthen Workshop, Barcelona GSE summer forum, Family Macro in Edesheim, and Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics for very useful comments and discussions. We gratefully acknowledge permission to use the data from the Institute for Research on Household Economics, Tokyo, Japan. Yamada gratefully acknowledges financial support from JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers 15H06304 and 17H04782. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.

Keywords

Dynamic collective model
Intra-household allocations
Limited commitment

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