Abstract
There remains little consensus regarding the role of that spouses play in parents' time choices. Although there are theoretical reasons to expect a strong link between a spouse's economic factors and own non-market time use decisions, the empirical research reveals little such linkage. We focus on three aggregated non-paid time uses: (1) leisure, (2) child care and (3) home production and on two specific spousal economic variables, (1) the spouse's reported weekly hours of paid work and (2) the relative wage (i.e., the wife's wage divided by the husband's wage). The latter spousal factor is particularly important because it has been proposed as a proxy for relative bargaining power within the household. Our findings, using data from the American Time Use Surveys from 2003 and 2004, suggest that spousal economic factors play little role in parents' non-market time choices except in terms of father's caregiving time, which is positively related to higher wife's wages relative to his own on the weekend and to higher wife's employment hours on weekdays.
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