Mobility across generations of the gender distribution of housework

J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal (), Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli
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J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal: University of Zaragoza, CTUR and BIFI, Spain
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No 402, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between the gender division of housework time of parents, with children living in the parental home, and that of the same children when they become adults and form their own families. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), we exploit its panel structure jointly with detailed information on children and parent’s time use, to analyse the time devoted by parents during their children’s adolescence (between 1994 and 1999) and that of the same children about ten years later (from 2006 to 2009). The results suggest that a greater involvement of fathers in the domestic activities traditionally done by mothers is related to a reduction in gender inequality in their children’s future families: father’s involvement in domestic activities has a significant impact on their sons’ time spent in the same activities. These findings shed light on the persistence of parental behaviour across generations.

Keywords: Time Use; Housework; Gender Roles; Attitudes; Intergenerational Transmission; Russia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J16 J22 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2016-05
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