I care, you clean? Gendered effects of informal care on couple housework and leisure time

Marie Blaise, Sandrine Juin, Hélène Le Forner and Quitterie Roquebert

No 2024-05, LISER Working Paper Series from Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Abstract: Despite a shift towards more balanced gender roles, women continue to carry out the bulk of domestic work at home. At the same time, they face competing demands from outside the household. This paper investigates the gendered effect of providing care to an older parent outside the household on individuals’ time allocation within couples. We focus on time spent on housework, distinguishing between household chores and more enjoyable tasks and on leisure with and without the partner. Data are drawn from the latest French Time-Use Survey (Enquête Emploi Du Temps, 2010). To tackle endogeneity issues, we instrument informal care by having at least one parent alive. Our results differ according to gender. When providing care, women tend to spend less time on housework. Irrespective of their own caregiving status, they spend more time on household chores when their male partners care for an older parent. In contrast, men’s time allocation within the household appears to be less impacted by any informal care provision.

Keywords: Time allocation; Informal Care; Leisure; Housework; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 247 pages
Date: 2024-09
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