particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In …

support the FE estimates and suggest that father's housework induced by his partner's non-traditional gender role attitudes …This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by … in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children …

which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the … industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on … each of the years 1987-1991. We find, as in U.S. studies, that housework has negative effects on the wages of women and …, housework has a positive effect on the wages of women and a negative effect on the wages of men, and in fact, high-wage men …

The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has … generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market …

housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged … when the ideal proportion increases from 0 to 1, the gap in the time spent on weekly housework for an average girl compared … separately by caste, religion and family size. Second, we use a two-stage model to look at participation into housework (as well …

Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold … subsidized childcare services provided by the Danish welfare system. Conclusion: Intrahousehold specialization in housework …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment … fall back to pre-prison levels. But for some groups of women, including those with four or more children, those who served …