The effects of marriage on couples' allocation of time between market and non-market hours
By: by AbdelRahmen El Lahga, Nicolas Moreau.
Contributors: Moreau, Nicolas.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2619; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2619
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Marriage -- Economic aspects -- Germany.
Description: "We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented in Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to account for selection bias in the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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