Results suggest the presence of returns to individual specialization in all farm, non-farm, and home based activities. The intrahousehold division of labor is influenced by comparative advantage based on human capital and by long-lasting returns to learning by doing, but we also find evidence of a separate effect of gender and family status.
Households seem to operate as hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of activity.
Other findings of interest are that there are increasing returns to scale in most household chores, that larger households work more off farm, and that better educated individuals enjoy more leisure. The research assistance of Sumiter Broca and Niny Khor is gratefully acknowledged.