Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2008
Abstract
We investigate how the impact of childbirth on intrahousehold allocation for married Japanese couples. We developed reduced‐form and structural‐form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. Our estimation results show that that allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after a childbirth. One additional child is associated with a reduction in the wife's private expenditure share. Our estimation results reject the income-pooling hypothesis, and show that women are more risk averse than men.
Keywords
Childbirth, bargaining, household allocation, relative risk aversion, Japan
Discipline
Asian Studies | Behavioral Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
44
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 11-2008
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki and ISHIKAWA, Ryuichiro.
The More Kids, the Less Mom's Divvy: Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation. (2008). 1-44.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1123
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Comments
Published in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (3), 1362-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00699.x