Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high … dispersion across countries at similar income levels. We use these data to motivate a macroeconomic model of household time use …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …