Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all … extra hour per day. Immigrant men do not pay such a price. Some work 34 min less at household chores than native men in all …-native marriages, while the native women who marry immigrant men seem to pay a price related to their situation that would be in an all …

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … greater share of the housework on weekdays. In dual-earner couples, both husbands and wives experience higher spousal … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …

Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women … per day. Immigrant men don't pay such price. Some work 34 minutes less at household chores than native men in all …-native marriages, while the native women who marry immigrant men seem to pay a price relatively to what their situation would be in an …

routine and men in non-routine housework tasks …This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence …

cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data on time use - particularly housework time - as well as on the … Labour Dynamics in Australia survey are used to test this prediction. Panel analysis of reported time use data for men … marry without first cohabiting increase their reported housework time more than those who enter cohabitations (by 3.7 hours …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for …, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis …