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SIMULTANEOUS USES OF TIME IN HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION
Author(s) -
Williams Ross,
Donath Sue
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1994.tb00085.x
Subject(s) - production (economics) , economics , function (biology) , econometrics , point (geometry) , time use survey , production function , demographic economics , time allocation , labour economics , microeconomics , mathematics , work (physics) , engineering , mechanical engineering , management , evolutionary biology , biology , geometry
A household production function is developed which allows for persons to be engaged in more than one activity at a point in time. Labour inputs are scaled back when two activities are being undertaken. Data from the 1987 Australian Time Use Survey is used to estimate equations explaining input hours into home production by adult members of the household. One implication of the empirical results is that when two activities are being undertaken simultaneously input hours on the activity coded as “primary” and the input hours on the activity coded as “secondary” should each have a weight of one‐half.