This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence … labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in …

effects of teleworking on wages, and differences in time-use patterns between office and work-at-home workdays. We find that …