We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production, we show that births increase time stress, especially among mothers, and that the effects last at least several ...
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European Economic Review
109 (2018), October 2018, 148-161
| Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Mark Wooden