When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work

Bittman, Michael; England, Paula; Sayer, Liana C.; Folbre, Nancy; Matheson, George

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“…Assuming that both partners seek to minimize housework, the one with greater economic resources will do less of it. Game-theoretic approaches, which treat the performance of housework as the result of a bargaining process, also arrive at a similar conclusion (see Bittman et al [2003] for a discussion).…”

Section: Economic Exchangementioning

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“…One of the most prominent lines of inquiry in the recent quantitative literature on housework concerns the relationship between earnings and time spent on domestic labor in the context of heterosexual couple households (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000;Bittman et al, 2003;Blair and Lichter, 1991;Brines, 1994;Coverman, 1985;Davis and Greenstein, 2004;Evertsson and Nermo, 2004;Farkas, 1976;Greenstein, 2000;Parkman, 2004;Ross, 1987). Two theories have come to dominate this research, the "economic exchange" and "gender display" frameworks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States

Gupta¹,

Ash²

2008

Feminist Economics

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We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners' earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women's shares of couples' total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women's absolute earnings and housework.Consequently it has relied on unsupported theoretical restrictions in the modeling. We adopt a flexible, nonparametric approach that does not impose the polynomial specifications on the data that characterize the two dominant models of the relationship between earnings and housework, the "economic exchange" and "gender display" hypotheses. Our nonparametric model allows the relationships among earnings shares, earnings, and time spent on housework to emerge from the data. A second problem with earlier studies is that they have tended to draw uniform inferences across the range of data, including regions where the data are sparse. This has led to interpretations of parametric curves that are driven by these thinly populated regions, and that may not be robust across the data. By contrast, our study explicitly assesses the reliability of results obtained in such regions. Our results provide support for an alternative model that emphasizes the importance of partners' own earnings for their housework, especially in the case of women. Women's own earnings are negatively associated with their housework hours, independently of their partners' earnings and their shares of couples' total earnings, which do not matter.2

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Section: Economic Exchangementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States

Gupta¹,

Ash²

2008

Feminist Economics

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“…The "doing gender" approach (Deutsch, 2007;West & Zimmerman, 1987) has often been adopted to explain the uneven distribution of housework in the family: the socalled "gender display" or "deviance-neutralization" hypothesis would explain why women do more housework than their husbands even when they contribute more to household income (Bittman et al, 2003;Brines, 1994;Evertsson & Nermo, 2004;Greenstein, 2000; see also Gupta, 2007 for a critique). A number of studies found evidence that endorsement of traditional family roles (as indicators of gender ideology) is associated with more housework time, net of economic resources and other sociodemographic characteristics (Bianchi et al, 2000;Fuwa, 2004;Geist, 2005;LachanceGrzela & Bouchard, 2010).…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Studies On Houseworkmentioning

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Perceived Fairness and Satisfaction with the Division of Housework Among Dual-Earner Couples in Italy

Carriero¹

2011

Marriage & Family Review

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“…for Australia: Bittman et al 2003;for Spain: Sevilla-Sanz et al 2010). Beyond that point, her share of housework remains constant.…”

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Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle

Kalb¹

2017

Tax, Social Policy and Gender: Rethinking Equality and Efficiency

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When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work

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Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States

Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States

Perceived Fairness and Satisfaction with the Division of Housework Among Dual-Earner Couples in Italy

Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle

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