Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of … labor in the home which rely on innately endogenous factors, this paper's theory is based on an exogenous biological …