the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …

The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … should also note the impact of tax policy on housework time and consider ways to reduce the distortions caused by sales and …

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …

gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in … the country of ancestry, the greater the equality in the division of housework. This is maintained when we consider both … housework and childcare as household labor. Our work is extended by examining how culture operates and is transmitted. We study …

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 …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … predicted (i.e., socially expected) and residual components. In support of this bifurcation, the residual housework time …

within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework … observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …