particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home … about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …

Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we document that heightened uncertainty increases housework and reduces … show that substitution between market and housework provides self-insurance to households, weakening precautionary savings … to higher inflation, particularly when uncertainty couples with policies redirecting time use towards housework (e …

northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …

family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and … participating in the labor force increases, market work increases and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting … expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to a greater incentive to join the labor force …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by … cutting back on home production, mainly food preparation and housework, mostly by engaging in less of it each day, not doing …

Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more …