Changing Household Dynamics: Relations Between Husbands, Wives and Children in Britain since 1991

The proposed paper will explore the effects of internal household dynamics upon labour force participation of women and household income in Britain since 1991. The paper will model the effects of changing internal structures of the household upon individual outcomes such as women’s labour force participation, as well as collective outcomes in the form of aggregate household income. The labour force participation outcomes will be treated as ordinal in nature, and household income will be grouped into bands. The analyses will control for secondary explanatory variables which will include gender, marital status, age, educational atiainment, socio-economic background and geographical region. The model will also incorporate birth of children and orientation to gender roles. Initially, a separate model will be fitied to each outcome (i.e. female labour force participation and household income)..