restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care … children—the gender care gap is particularly wide. Since the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid work negatively affects … men’s participation in housework and child care are important. An example of the latter would be the extension of partner …

threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

Conditions we first show that high income married or cohabiting women do twice as much housework as single women in Southern … Southern Europe, which may stem from regional gender norms. Our findings hold after instrumenting for relative wages using the …

affects child welfare. Access to free or subsidized public childcare can increase women's labor force participation and …

production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate … work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this …

industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America … between countries in terms of the gender distribution of total work (paid work plus unpaid work), with Colombia and Peru being … men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender …

presence of the parents-in-law, particularly the mother-in-law, shape the daughter-in-law's distribution of time between paid … production and childcare increases when she co-resides with a daughter-in-law who has completed tertiary education. The father … state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …