teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability that the household chores examined in this … face the family demands and share the household chores with their spouse, increasing their fairness belief about the …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … predicted (i.e., socially expected) and residual components. In support of this bifurcation, the residual housework time …

housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

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 …

support that both men and women who are teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability … fairness belief about the household division allocation and improving their well-being, expressed by happiness …

of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the … husband's share of labor income, the lower his share of housework time; the greater the wife's market hours, the lower his … housework time, but the larger his share of housework time. Treating market work as endogenous substantially lowers the size of …

This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence … labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in …