Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity

Katrin Auspurg (), Maria Iacovou and Cheti Nicoletti
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Katrin Auspurg: Goethe University Frankfurt

No 8569, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere.

Keywords: division of labor; unpaid work; housework; gender; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2014-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-dem, nep-exp, nep-hme, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 66, 118-139

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