Coen-Pirani, Daniele; León, Alexis; Lugauer, Steven - Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
In this paper we estimate the effect of household appliance ownership on the labor force participation rate of married women using micro-level data from the 1960 and 1970 U.S. Censuses. In order to identify the causal effect of home appliance ownership on married women's labor force...