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 …

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 …

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women?s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on … each of the years 1987-1991. We find, as in U.S. studies, that housework has negative effects on the wages of women and …, housework has a positive effect on the wages of women and a negative effect on the wages of men, and in fact, high-wage men …

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 …

associated with increases in the time devoted to study by men, and to household production by women, and with decreases in the … time devoted to personal care by men and leisure by women. We also find evidence favoring consumption smoothing as the …

in total work time-work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do …, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender …

as errands, housework, and leisure. These moderate and relatively small correlations may indicate either an error …

countries on four continents there is no difference-men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …