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Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power:
An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households
By
Nabanita Datta Gupta*
Leslie S. Stratton**
September 2008
Keywords: Time Use, Power, Leisure, Institutions, Norms
JEL Code: J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
* Research Professor, CIM, IZA, The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Herluf
Trolles Gade 11, DK-1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Phone +45 3348 0985, Fax +45 3348
0833, [email protected]
** Associate professor, CIM, IZA, Virginia Commonwealth University, 301 W. Main Street,
PO Box 844000, Richmond VA, 23284-4000, USA. Phone: (804) 828 7141, Fax: (804) 828
9103, [email protected]. Corresponding Author.
Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Camilla 0sterballe Pedersen and Philip R0pcke for
very helpful research assistance. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the
Danish Social Research Council, FSE and comments from participants at the Workshop on
the Labour Market Behavior of Couples held in Nice, France June 2008.