about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …

’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care … market return. The linear relationship and stronger effects on the division of child care than for housework lent support to … identity-based explanations. Paternal leave take-up was associated with a more equal division of housework and child care after …

return affect the division of housework in couples after a birth. By observing several parental leave policy reforms in … housework. The analysis uses multilevel multiprocess models for 1220 birth events of British couples and 1785 births to German … results suggest that mothers increase their housework hours with every additional month of employment interruption. Mothers …

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 …

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. …