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

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 …

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework than men may be explained by differences in preferences … differences in the preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …