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Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples

Hofmarcher, Thomas; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021

We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...

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Time to Eat : Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006

Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...

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Valuing unpaid care work in Bhutan

Suh, Jooyeoun; Changa Dorji; Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; … - 2020

A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...

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Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Ichino, Andrea; Olsson, Martin; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2019

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for...

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Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Ichino, Andrea; Olsson, Martin; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2019

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Marriage and Housework

Borra, Cristina - 2017

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 …

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Differences in Us-German Time Allocation : Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2021

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe

Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024

housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …

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What works for working couples? : work arrangements, maternal labor supply, and the division of home production

Ciasullo, Ludovica; Uccioli, Martina - 2024

We document how a change to work arrangements reduces the child penalty in labor supply for women, and that the consequent more equal distribution of household income does not translate into a more equal division of home production between mothers and fathers. The Australian 2009 Fair Work Act...

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Separate housework spheres

Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024

work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

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