TY - CHAP
T1 - Income, Intra-household Bargaining Power and the Happiness of Japanese Married Women
AU - Ma, Xinxin
AU - Piao, Xiangdan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion Science) KAKENHI (Grant Number JP16K03611), and the project grand of Joint Usage and Research Center Program at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. We are grateful to Professor Ming-Chang Tsai (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) for his helpful suggestions. We also acknowledge the anonymous referees and editors for their many helpful comments and suggestions, and Dr. Richard Lingwood for his helpful editing work.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This is an empirical study that evaluates the influence of household income, inter-household relative income, intra-household bargaining power on the happiness of Japanese married women using data from the Japanese Household Panel Survey (JHPS) conducted from 1995 and 2013. There are five major conclusions. First, the absolute income hypothesis is supported. The result is consistent with published studies for other developed and developing countries. Second, when absolute income is controlled, the inter-household relative income hypothesis is not supported: but when absolute income is not controlled, it is supported. Third, the income and education gap between a wife and her husband can negatively affect her happiness: however, the larger the amount of the husband’s income controlled by the wife the greater her happiness is, and the affect is more marked for the working wife group than the non-work wife group. Fourth, the results based on the robustness checks are consistent. Fifth, other factors, such as the wife’s education, and the hours of husband participation in child care or housework positively affect her happiness. The wife’s age, youngest child’s age, and living with parents negatively affects happiness.
AB - This is an empirical study that evaluates the influence of household income, inter-household relative income, intra-household bargaining power on the happiness of Japanese married women using data from the Japanese Household Panel Survey (JHPS) conducted from 1995 and 2013. There are five major conclusions. First, the absolute income hypothesis is supported. The result is consistent with published studies for other developed and developing countries. Second, when absolute income is controlled, the inter-household relative income hypothesis is not supported: but when absolute income is not controlled, it is supported. Third, the income and education gap between a wife and her husband can negatively affect her happiness: however, the larger the amount of the husband’s income controlled by the wife the greater her happiness is, and the affect is more marked for the working wife group than the non-work wife group. Fourth, the results based on the robustness checks are consistent. Fifth, other factors, such as the wife’s education, and the hours of husband participation in child care or housework positively affect her happiness. The wife’s age, youngest child’s age, and living with parents negatively affects happiness.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-8910-8_4
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-8910-8_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85091601913
T3 - Quality of Life in Asia
SP - 77
EP - 106
BT - Quality of Life in Asia
PB - Springer
ER -