 Retirement, pension eligibility and home productionLabour Economics, 2016, vol. 38, issue C, 106-120 Abstract: I estimate the effect of retirement on housework by exploiting the discontinuity in pension eligibility generated by the Italian Social Security rules. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), I show that women increase their time spent on home production by more than 400min per week. For men, there is on average no evidence of a significant change, which differs from the results of studies in other countries. However, estimates are heterogeneous by marital status, suggesting that married men do not increase their effort on household production because they can rely on their spouses. I also discuss other possible explanations, in particular men dedicating their time to “semi-leisure chores” that do not fall under the definition of housework used in SILC. Overall, results suggest that retirement does not lead to a more equal distribution of “core” household chores between genders. Keywords: Retirement; Housework; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:labeco:v:38:y:2016:i:c:p:106-120 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.01.004 Access Statistics for this article Labour Economics is currently edited by A. Ichino More articles in Labour Economics from Elsevier |
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