Marriage and housework

Cristina Borra, Martin Browning and Almudena Sevilla ()

Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, vol. 73, issue 2, 479-508

Abstract: This article 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. Time-varying observed variables and time-invariant heterogeneity explains about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine one-and-a-half-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in routine and men in non-routine housework tasks.

JEL-codes: D13 J12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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