Trade‐Offs Between Purchased Services and Time in Single‐Parent and Two‐Parent Families
作者:
CATHLEEN D. ZICK,
JANE McCULLOUGH,
KEN R. SMITH,
期刊:
Journal of Consumer Affairs
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 30,
issue 1
页码: 1-23
ISSN:0022-0078
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1996.tb00723.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This research examines the influence of marital status on the demand for services using a model in which the demand for market services and mothers' time spent in related household activities are jointly determined. Three specific areas of market services are investigated: meals prepared away from home, child care, and housekeeping. In multivariate systems analyses in which mothers' household work time and purchased services were simultaneously determined, families headed by single mothers were found to (a) purchase more meals prepared away from home and (b) be more likely to purchase child care and housekeeping services than their two‐parent counterparts holding income and other factors constan
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