A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model

11 Pages Posted: 4 May 2015

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L. Cherchye

KU Leuven; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Bram de Rock

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) - Subfaculty of Economics and Applied Economics

Frederic Vermeulen

Tilburg University - CentER; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Abstract

The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value of time is uniform across time uses by using market wages. This approach implies a fundamental identification problem. We demonstrate that the identification problem can be solved if production shifters are available.

Keywords: time use, home production, identification, production shifter

JEL Classification: D11, D12, D13

Suggested Citation

Cherchye, Laurens and de Rock, Bram and Vermeulen, Frederic, A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model. IZA Discussion Paper No. 9001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2601687 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2601687

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