Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This …

Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This …

paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS … to paid sick leave and (ii) suppressed sick leave ("presenteeism"). Thirty-five percent of US full-time employees lack …

the time period covered by the data, is used as identifying information. The empirical analysis is focused on explaining …

, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with … causality is taken into account, we find that the effect of home production on commuting time for women is more than double the … effect for men, while childcare time has an effect on women's commuting time behavior only. Our results explain why prior …

participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities … 10 minutes increase in commuting decreases the probability of married women to participate in the labor market by 4 … with children and immigrant women originating from countries with more gendered social norms respond the most to commuting …