, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married … men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while … wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more hours. These results are robust to controlling for individual …

remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The … negative effect on the supply of labor hours worked across all regions, both for men and women. Further, in the households that …