data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely …We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal …

market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power …

(gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household …

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

perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household … less per day on household work, regardless their sexual orientation. We therefore conclude that, from a comparative …

, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …

pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home …

Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline …. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities … increasing time devoted to household production. Market work also alters the timing of a fixed amount of non-market activities …

consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home … production of both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France …, enabling a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home …