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http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/khea.2010.48.4.083

Time Resource Transfers of Married Couples to Their Parents on Decision-Making Power  

Yoon, Won-Ah (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association / v.48, no.4, 2010 , pp. 83-102 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper investigates whether intra-household bargaining power affects couples' caregiving decisions during instances of competing parental demands for assistance. The primary focus is on examining how partners' bargaining power influences the relative allocation of time resources between parents and parents-in-law, assuming that children prefer to transfer caregiving resources toward their own parents over their parents-in-law. The findings in this study reject the bargaining theory that couple's parental care behavior results from a bargaining process between the husband and the wife. More specifically, the results did not clearly show that children prefer to transfer caregiving resources toward their own parents over their parents-in-law. Decision-making power, measured by final decision-making authority, also failed to affect the relative care transfers.
Keywords
decision-making power; bargaining power; time transfer; elderly care;
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