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 …

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 …

The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has … generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market … hers. -- time allocation ; housework ; preferences …

This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the … in leisure and higher (lower) share of the couple's total work time (employment, commuting and housework). A large sample … is also consistent with the theory that marriage market participants' choices are affected by the prevailing sex ratio. …

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 …

highly educated women substituted work for time devoted to housework and childcare, while less educated wives substituted … work for leisure and personal time. We find no effects for men. The fact that the reforms reduced fertility only among …