The effects of marriage on couples' allocation of time: some evidence from a sample of German couples

AbdelRahmen El Lahga () and Nicolas Moreau

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Abstract: We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented in Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to account for selection bias in the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications.

Keywords: Marriage; Household allocation; Domestic production; Labor supply; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in José Alberto Molina. Household Economic Behaviors, Springer, 49 p., 2011, International Series on Consumer Science, 978-1-441-99431-8

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