on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and … housework. Consequently it has relied on unsupported theoretical restrictions in the modeling. We adopt a flexible …

the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …