Marriage and Housework
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Marriage and Housework. / Borra, Cristina; Browning, Martin; Sevilla, Almudena.
2020.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Marriage and Housework
AU - Borra, Cristina
AU - Browning, Martin
AU - Sevilla, Almudena
PY - 2020/2/20
Y1 - 2020/2/20
N2 - This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Permanent unobserved heterogeneity explains about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence suggests that individuals with a higher preference for marriage also have more traditional views on the division of household labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in routine and men in non-routine housework tasks.
AB - This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Permanent unobserved heterogeneity explains about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence suggests that individuals with a higher preference for marriage also have more traditional views on the division of household labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in routine and men in non-routine housework tasks.
KW - Marriage
KW - Time use
KW - Home production
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3524799
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3524799
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CEBI Working Paper Series
BT - Marriage and Housework
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