NDLI: Is volunteer labor part of household production? Evidence from married couples

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Brown, Elear Zhang, Ye
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Volunteer labor is generally modeled as an individualistic pursuit, akin to leisure or to human capital accumulation. Some activities labeled as volunteering, however, may be more usefully thought of as quid pro quo time commitments that are part of securing services for family members. Parents are frequently expected to volunteer, for example, when their children participate in youth sports leagues or school marching bands. In such cases, volunteering is essentially an instance of household production undertaken outside the home. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we divide volunteering into three categories—youth-related, religious, and non-youth-related secular—according to the likelihood that an instance of volunteering in the category represents household production. We find evidence that husbands and wives respond to one another’s time pressures such that youth-related volunteering looks like a task for which husbands’ and wives’ time inputs substitute for one another. Further, we find this pattern for housework, and not for other forms of volunteering. An increase in either spouse’s hours of market work will significantly reduce that spouse’s likelihood of volunteering for youth-related activities while raising the partner’s likelihood of volunteering. A similar pattern holds for hours volunteered to youth-related activities, with the wife’s responses achieving statistical significance.
Starting Page	341
Ending Page	369
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-01-07
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Volunteer labor Household production Intra-family resource allocation Time allocation Microeconomics Labor Economics Population Economics Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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