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example, social norms. In periods in which married women enjoy greater outside options (e.g., by increasing their labor force … using data from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of Mature Women, the NLS Young Women, and the NLSY79. The prediction …
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. More generally, we find that women's wages have a stronger association with the inputs to domestic work than any other …
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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 …
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Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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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 …
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extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their …
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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...
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fathers with time diaries who have propensity scores similar to the women's husband. The results show very little effect of …
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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 …
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is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence … Italian women have the lowest market employment rates. We model the three different time uses simultaneously for the two …'s attributes: in particular, husbands' housework time increases with the wage of their wife. On the contrary, the own wage effect …
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