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Gender convergence in couples' time use following the COVID-19 pandemic

Binder, Ariel - 2026

This paper uses American Time Use Survey data to show that prime-age men's and women's average weekly work hours followed parallel trends from 2011-19, but then abruptly converged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. This convergence was driven by the changing behavior of couples, for...

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Estimating the effect of working from home on parents' division of childcare and housework : a new panel IV approach

Schüller, Simone - 2025

This study investigates whether (and how) working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of parental unpaid labor. I use the recent COVID-19 pandemic that brought an unanticipated yet lasting shift to WFH combined with a measure of occupational WFH feasibility (Alipour et al. 2023) as a...

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Estimating the Effect of Working from Home on Parents' Division of Childcare and Housework: A New Panel IV Approach

Schüller, Simone - 2025

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Estimating the Effect of Working from Home on Parents' Division of Childcare and Housework: A New Panel IV Approach

Schüller, Simone - 2025

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Estimating the effect of working from home on parents' division of childcare and housework : a new panel IV approach

Schüller, Simone - 2025

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The post-COVID-19 gender gap in the division of household labor

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2025

This study provides a thorough examination of the evolving gender gap in time allocated to housework in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. With data from the American Time Use Survey (2015-2022), our findings reveal a significant trend towards greater equality in the allocation of household...

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Sociocultural barriers to outsourcing housework : unraveling the non-use of domestic services

Trübner, Miriam; Nisic, Natascha - 2024

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The household equipment revolution

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2024

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The household equipment revolution

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2024

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The household equipment revolution

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2024

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Wage effects of couples' divisions of labour across the UK wage distribution

Blom, Niels; Cooke, Lynn P. - 2024

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Household appliances, infrastructural services, and married women’s unpaid care work in Egypt

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Ragab, Sara - 2026

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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...

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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska‐Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

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Gendered housework : spousal relative income, parenthood and traditional gender identity norms

Syrda, Joanna - 2023

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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The post-COVID-19 gender gap in the division of household labor

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2025

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Long work hours and long commutes in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana : time poverty and gender

Carmichael, Fiona; Daley, Patricia; Darko, Christian K.; … - 2025

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A room of one's own. work from home and the gendered allocation of time

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2025

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Marginalized agency or agency at the margins : domestic workers and informality

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Lavee, Einat - 2025

This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs. Specifically, we examine the determinants of paid domestic work in Israel through the lens of existing theoretical frameworks of informality. Using rich administrative data, we...

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Unpaid working time and disproportionate female hazard : an intersectionality perspective

Manicardi, Caterina; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2025

How has the distribution of unpaid working time between men and women evolved over the last twenty years? Does unpaid working time still disproportionately affect women, more than fifty years after the massive entry of the female labour force into formal employment? And, if so, which market and...

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Unpaid work, time use, and time poverty in Kenya

Simiyu, Kefa - 2025

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Valuing and investing in unpaid care and domestic work : country case study Lao People's Democratic Republic

2025

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Home production and gender gap in structural change

Cao, Huoqing; Chen, Chaoran; Xi, Xican - 2025

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Household chores, taxes, and the labor-supply elasticities of women and men

Bahn, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2025 - This version: September 2025

We study how the division of household chores and individual preferences contribute to gender differences in labor supply elasticities and examine the implications for optimal taxation. In a model of labor supply in dual-earner households, we show that elasticities and optimal income tax rates...

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Does remote work reinforce gender gaps in (un)paid labor?

Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2025

I study how the rise in working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of paid and unpaid labor (caregiving, domestic tasks). Identification uses differences in individuals' exposure to the Covid-induced WFH shock, measured by the WFH feasibility of their job in 2019. Using panel data from...

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Does remote work reinforce gender gaps in (un)paid labor?

Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2025

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Does remote work reinforce gender gaps in (un)paid labor?

Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2025 - Original version: August 2025, this version: November 2025

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Podział obowiązków domowych i jego konsekwencje dla dzietności

Baszczak, Łukasz; Lesiak, Magdalena; Lewandowski, Marcin; … - 2025

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Division of household responsibilities and its consequences for fertility

Baszczak, Łukasz; Lesiak, Magdalena; Lewandowski, Marcin; … - 2025

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Unpaid care in the EU

2025

As countries face increasing pressure when it comes to providing care services, unpaid caregivers make an invaluable contribution. Care is needed at all ages of life, particularly when individuals face health issues or disabilities. The majority of care is provided within families, without...

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Unpaid care in the EU

2025

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What works for working couples? : work arrangements, maternal labor supply, and the division of home production

Ciasullo, Ludovica; Uccioli, Martina - 2025

We provide the first causal evidence that changes to work arrangements – in the form of greater schedule regularity – can reduce the child penalty in earnings for women. The Australian 2009 Fair Work Act explicitly entitled parents of young children to request a change in work arrangements....

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What works for working couples? : work arrangements, maternal labor supply, and the division of home production

Ciasullo, Ludovica; Uccioli, Martina - 2024

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Long-term consequences of teaching gender roles : evidence from desegregating industrial arts and home economics in Japan

Hara, Hiromi; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2025

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Dollars and domestic duties : a 22-year study of income, home labor, and gendered career outcomes in dual-earner couples

Yu, Hyejin; Smith, Alexis; Dimotakis, Nikolaos - 2025

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For (un)love or (of) taxes? : how taxing bachelors empowered Italian women

Rubolino, Enrico - 2025

Unpaid domestic work continues to fall largely on women, despite their growing presence in the workforce. This paper asks whether policies changing the relative bargaining position of spouses can disrupt this pattern. I use the introduction of a bachelor tax in fascist Italy to show that...

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Paying moms to stay home : short and long run effects on parents and children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - 2025

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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - 2023

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Paying moms to stay home : short and long run effects on parents and children

Gruber, Jonathan; Huttunen, Kristiina; Kosonen, Tuomas - 2022

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Division of labour, fertility intentions, and childbearing in estonia

Gortfelder, Mark; Puur, Allan; Klesment, Martin - 2025

Gender Revolution Theory offers a compelling hypothesis about the role of gender equality in contemporary fertility dynamics, suggesting that a more egalitarian division of paid and unpaid labour among couples will enhance childbearing. However, the empirical evidence supporting is weak. This...

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Przyczyny nierównego podziału obowiązków domowych : Część I

Baszczak, Łukasz; Rozbicka, Iga; Wincewicz-Price, Agnieszka - 2025

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When gender kicks in : an experimental study of work from home and attitudes to household work and childcare

Kotsadam, Andreas; Løvgren, Mette; Moreau, Nicolas; … - 2025

We study how working from home links to gendered attitudes about household work and childcare. Using a vignette experiment embedded in a regular Dutch population representative survey, we randomly vary the gender of the partner working from home in a hypothetical dual-earner couple. When...

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When gender kicks in: an experimental study of work from home and attitudes to household work and childcare

Kotsadam, Andreas; Løvgren, Mette; Moreau, Nicolas; … - 2025

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Impetus to Chinese female status : service robotics in working time responses

Gao, Ziming; Guo, Xiaomin; Hu, Shancheng - 2025

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Care in crisis : au pairing during a global pandemic

Kintominas, Angela - 2025

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Gender gaps in paid and unpaid work persist

2025

This policy brief summarises key findings on gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, from the OECD report Gender Equality in a Changing World: Taking Stock and Moving Forward , identifying relevant social, economic and institutional factors preventing gender equality. It closes with relevant policy...

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Oli Hawrylyshyn’s contribution to the economic valuation of unpaid domestic work

Martinier, Etienne - 2025

This article examines the pivotal contribution of Oli Hawrylyshyn (1943-2020) to the economic valuation of unpaid domestic work. Responding to feminist critiques of GDP in the 1970s, Hawrylyshyn moved beyond Gary Becker's focus on time allocation to specifically measure the economic value of...

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Spannungsfeld Vereinbarkeit 2 : Arbeitsaufteilung, Geschlechterrollen und Aushandlungen im Paarkontext

Kümmerling, Angelika; Zink, Lina; Jansen, Andreas - 2025

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Child work in developing countries : revisiting the differences and similarities between income-generating and care and domestic work

Camilletti, Elena; Gassmann, Franziska; Groot, Wim; … - 2025

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Housework, Consumption and Female Labour in Japan, 1600-1940 : Understanding the Role of Unpaid Work in Determining Living Standards

Francks, Penelope - 2025

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Households and Living Standards in the Literature -- Chapter 3: The Context of Women’s Work and Household Labour in Japan -- Chapter 4: Housework and the Nature of Consumption Goods -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

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Living distance and women's labor force participation : evidence from China

Li, Xinheng - 2025

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Union coverage and men's participation in unpaid social reproduction in the United States

Small, Sarah F. - 2025

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The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of housework and childcare : evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2022 - Current version: May 23, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives because of the increased demands of housework and childcare. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women. Yet, the rise in remote working also has the potential to increase paternal involvement in family life and...

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Parents' time allocation in different phases of the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from the UK and implications for gender equality

Lyssiotou, Panayiota Flori; Savčic, Ružica - 2022

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Sociocultural barriers to outsourcing housework: Unraveling the non‐use of domestic services

Trübner, Miriam; Nisic, Natascha - 2024

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Separate housework spheres

Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024

Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of...

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Separate housework spheres

Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024

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Time use among rural households in Ethiopia : implications for household welfare and productivity

Getahun, Tigabu Degu; Mekonnen, Jemberu Lulie - 2024

This study investigates the dynamics of time allocation within Ethiopian rural households. Analysis of daily time allocation shows a contrast in total work hours between men and women, with women shouldering a significantly higher burden. This disparity suggests an incidence of time poverty...

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Gendered patterns of adults' and children's time and access to technology and infrastructure in rural Uganda

Isoto, Rosemary E.; Nakamatte, Irene; Bashaasha, Bernard; … - 2024

This study analyses the time use patterns of men, women and children in rural areas of Uganda. The aims are to 1. Map the gendered patterns of time allocation to paid and unpaid work, total work and leisure. 2. Analyze the differences in individuals' time allocation in various household types...

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Innovations, technology and time allocation : implications for labour productivity and welfare in Ghana

Asante, Felix Ankomah; Awo, Martha Adimabuno; Bonzo, … - 2024

This report investigates the dynamics of time allocation of men, women, and children in various types of work in rural households in Ghana. Using primary data and the Ghana Time Use Survey (GTUS) 2009, it examines gendered differences in time allocation and the interaction between income,...

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Well-being costs of unpaid care : gendered evidence from a contextualized time-use survey in India

Sinha, Aashima; Sedai, Ashish Kumar; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; … - 2024

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A guide to public investments in the care economy : estimating care deficits, investment costs and economic returns : consolidated report

2024

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