How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …

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 …

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 …

We study variations in housework time and leisure consumption when workers are subject to labor market work hours … find that the ceilings on market work hours induce workers to increase time spent on housework, including cooking, and to … reduce vacation time. In contrast, floors on market work hours do not significantly affect time spent on housework, but may …

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 …