Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2013
Abstract
Exploiting unique panel data that include direct measurements of resource allocation within households, we investigated the impact of childbirth on intrahousehold allocation for married Japanese couples. Based on a collective model of the household, we developed reduced-form and structural-form estimation equations that allow us to focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. We found one additional child is associated with a reduction in the wife's private expenditure share by at least two percentage points. This may be because she substitutes more say in decisions on the children for her own private expenditure share.
Keywords
Childbirth, bargaining, household allocation, relative risk aversion, Japan
Discipline
Asian Studies | Behavioral Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Publication
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Volume
75
Issue
3
First Page
362
Last Page
387
ISSN
1468-0084
Identifier
10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00699.x
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki and ISHIKAWA, Ryuichiro.
How Does Childbirth Alter Intrahousehold Resource Allocation?: Evidence from Japan. (2013). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 75, (3), 362-387.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1436
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00699.x