The Relevance of the Household Production Function and Its Implications for the Allocation of Time

Pollak, Robert A.; Wachter, Michael L.

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“…5 In the Beckerian 5 See Pollak and Wachter (1975) for a critique based on the fact that the same unit of time may be inputs into multiple commodities. In this section, we abstract from such "joint production" and simply note that this critique is relevant for market time as well.…”

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Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades

2006

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We document that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that leisure for men increased by 6-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in market work hours) and for women by 4-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). This increase in leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. We also find that leisure increased during the last 40 years for a number of sub-samples of the population, with less-educated adults experiencing the largest increases. Lastly, we document a growing "inequality" in leisure that is the mirror image of the growing inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…The household aodel aa depicted ia characterized by joint production (Pollak and Wachter, 1975) .in tre sense that a subaet of goods Y (molting, for exam-3 ple) both af fect1 child hE:alth and contributes to utility directly. For aillplici ty, only one production process is discussed, but the aodel can be easily ge~eralized to depict aany processes vithout changing its major 1.Jlplications.…”

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“…The data requirements and estiaation problems involved in •eparating out both the characteristics of the utility function and the underlying health technology are clearly formidable (aee Barnett, 1977 andPollak and-Wachter, 1977). However, the notion that the health production inputs are behavioral· variables also implies that even if only infoi'aation on the technology of health productioti vere desired, having aeuurea of all important behavioral inputs and the health output vould not be adequate to des-…”

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Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight

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1983

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“…Following Pollak and Wachter (1975), we further assume that there are constant returns to scale in the household technologies and that there is nonjointness in production: a given input can only be used for the production of a sole nonmarket good. The household's maximization problem is then equal to: max z;q 1 ;:::;q k ;t 1 ;:::;t k ;t m u(z) (2) subject to…”

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A simple identification strategy for Gary Becker’s time allocation model

2015

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The Relevance of the Household Production Function and Its Implications for the Allocation of Time

Cited by 416 publications

References 9 publications

Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades

Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades

Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight

A simple identification strategy for Gary Becker’s time allocation model

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