which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the …

This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the … in leisure and higher (lower) share of the couple's total work time (employment, commuting and housework). A large sample …

highly educated women substituted work for time devoted to housework and childcare, while less educated wives substituted … women with higher education suggests that the difference between them and less educated wives in the response to reduced …

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 … hers. -- time allocation ; housework ; preferences …

work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … lower than that for men, compared to the pre-pandemic period. Men spent more time on housework in April 2020, but by August …

) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women. …

In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass … information experiment in rural India. Treatment villages were randomly assigned to receive information about negative health … nudges towards cleaner energy use at home are unlikely to generate transformative shifts in women's home production time. …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine …

We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor … strongest association with housework time allocation adjustments. These adjustments are in part attributable to concurrent … holding more liberal gender role attitudes are more likely to adjust their housework time allocations after female promotion …