How Does Childbirth Alter Intrahousehold Resource Allocation? Evidence from Japan*
利用日本夫妻的独特面板数据，研究生育对家庭内部资源分配的影响，发现每多一个孩子会使妻子的私人支出份额至少下降两个百分点。
Abstract Exploiting unique panel data that include direct measurements of resource allocation within households, we investigated the impact of childbirth on intrahousehold allocation for married Japanese couples. Based on a collective model of the household, we developed reduced‐form and structural‐form estimation equations that allow us to focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. We found one additional child is associated with a reduction in the wife's private expenditure share by at least two percentage points. This may be because she substitutes more say in decisions on the children for her own private expenditure share.