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)...