H J K L (House, Job, Kids and Leisure) or the daily life of women in France in the late sixties: an economist's view

J. Silber

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Abstract

The paper tests some of the implications of the Theory of the Allocation of Time, comparing in particular the behaviour of working and non working women. Special emphasis is put on the impact of the presence (number and age) of children, this variable being assumed to act as an efficiency change (the analysis is similar to that of Michael concerning the effect of education on consumption). Data were obtained from a Time Budget Survey conducted in France in 1967. It appears that the age of the children has a much stronger impact on the women's allocation of time than the number of children, that time spent with children does not really vary with the educational level of the mother, and that hours of work first increase then decrease with the number of years of schooling of the mother.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)39-54
Number of pages16
JournalEmpirical Economics
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1980

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