The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …

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 …We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework …

The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …

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 …