explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax …

work declined discretely. The economy-wide drops in market work were reallocated solely to leisure and personal maintenance …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the …

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …

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 … will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …

within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework … observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …

work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …