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With or Without You : Divorce Rates and Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
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Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time : An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
Stancanelli, Elena - 2010
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...
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Son Preference and Children's Housework : The Case of India
Lin, Tin-Chi - 2012
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged … when the ideal proportion increases from 0 to 1, the gap in the time spent on weekly housework for an average girl compared …
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The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
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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Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment, and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husbands' Intra-Household Work
Roff, Jennifer - 2017
Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact...
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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might : A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply
Boone, Jan - 2009
It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...
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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2007
Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such as food preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of home production activities. Meanwhile the wage...
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Burda, Michael C. - 2007
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day - the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no difference -...
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Time to Eat : Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
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Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
Foster, Gigi - 2017
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 …
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