 Gender differences and time allocation: A comparative analysis of Egypt and TunisiaHanan Nazier () and Asmaa Ezzat The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022, vol. 85, issue C, 174-193 Abstract: This paper aims at examining the gender differences in time allocation between market, care and house work in Egypt and Tunisia, as well as analyzing the determinants of time allocated to each type of work across gender. This is done through relying on the data provided by the LMPS done in Egypt (2012) and in Tunisia (2014). Then, three Tobit equations are estimated simultaneously, each equation is for one type of work, using maximum simulated likelihood (MSL). The empirical results conform with the commonly known result that females tend to spend less time on market work, while they spend more time on both care and house work, compared to males. Moreover, results show that a number of individual, household, and community variables have different effects on time allocation decisions for females and males. Keywords: Gender; Time allocation; Egypt; Tunisia; Tobit; ELMPS; TLMPS (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:quaeco:v:85:y:2022:i:c:p:174-193 DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2021.01.001 Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance is currently edited by R. J. Arnould and J. E. Finnerty More articles in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance from Elsevier |
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