Husbands’ Housework Time: Does Wives’ Paid Employment Make a Difference?

Begoña Álvarez and Daniel Miles

No 402, Working Papers from Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Economía Aplicada

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the effect of a woman’s decision to enter paid employment on their husband’s contribution to domestic work. To explore this issue, we analyze cross-sectional data on Spanish couples. Our results suggest that this decision to participate in the labor market increases husbands’ housework time. However, these estimates may be subject to an omitted variable bias due to the correlation between unobservable variables, e.g., social norms, determining both decisions. Once we take into account this endogeneity problem, we find a larger impact of the wife’s labor status on the husband’s contribution to housework.

Keywords: time allocation; gender relations; count data; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2004-03
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