cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data on time use - particularly housework time - as well as on the … marry without first cohabiting increase their reported housework time more than those who enter cohabitations (by 3.7 hours …

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 …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using Australian data, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to examine … how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify …