NDLI: Labor supply and household meal production among working adults in the Health and Retirement Survey

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Dunn, Richard A.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	In this paper, I consider how working adults near retirement age in the United States allocate time and monetary resources to meal production. Using the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey supplement to the Health and Retirement Survey, I use a fixed-effects tobit specification to estimate the effect of hours worked, labor income, non-labor income and assets on meal production decisions for respondents between 45 and 75 years of age who either live alone or with their spouse/partner. These relationships are estimated separately by gender and household structure (single-headed and dual-headed households). Among single males, increasing labor supply by 10 h per week was associated with 33.8 fewer minutes per week allocated to at-home meal preparation, 39.5 fewer minutes per month eating at restaurants, and $6.73 more per week spent on groceries. In contrast, the time and expenditure allocations of single females did not respond to changes in hours worked. Within dual-member households, increasing own-labor supply by 10 h per week was associated with a decrease in time allocated to preparing meals for both the male (30.4 min per week) and female member (30.5 min per week) with only weak evidence that the spouse/partner compensated by increasing their allocation of time.
Starting Page	437
Ending Page	457
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-10-04
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Household production Labor supply Time use HRS CAMS Microeconomics Labor Economics Population Economics Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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