Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom".

Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom".
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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom".

"This is joint work with J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jose Alberto Molina, both of University of Zaragoza in Spain. 

 Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between parents’ time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenertional correlations in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel Survey, we find that that only fathers’ housework time appears to have a statistically significant effect. The IV estimates fully support the FE estimates and suggest that father’s housework induced by his partner’s non-traditional gender role attitudes towards domestic division of labour and her actual labour supply in the previous wave, has a large and significant effect on children’s housework time. Our results contribute to the field of intergenerational mobility of behaviors.

 JEL CODES:   J16, J22

 KEYWORDS: Housework, household, intergenerational transfers, Multinational Time Use Study, British Household Panel Survey.

Speaker
Dr Yu Zhu, University of Kent
Hosted by
Dr Yu Aoki / Dr Alexandros Zangelidis
Venue
S86 EWB