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Title: How Does Education Affect the Housework Time of Husbands?
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: In this dissertation, I estimate the structural parameters of the collective model of family time allocation decisions using the 2015 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data set. Traditional theories in labor economics explain that higher education leads to less housework. However, in the data set, we see that more educated husbands spend more housework time and take a higher share of the housework than less educated husbands. According to the PSID data set, on average, married-couple households in the United States reported spending 24 hours per week on housework in 2015. The average husband is responsible for approximately 32% of housework within the households in the U.S. Holding a wife's educational attainment level fixed, a husband with a college degree spends about 7.24 minutes more per day on housework compared to a husband with a high school degree. In terms of a husband's housework timeshare, there is a 4.2% point increase when a husband extends his education level from a high school degree to a college degree. This dissertation focuses on explaining this phenomenon that has never been explained by the existing literature. I develop a theoretical model to examine how a husband's education affects his time at home and analyze the impact of education on the husband's housework time. My structural estimation results reveal that husbands' education elasticity of home productivity is greater than that of market productivity and even wives' education elasticity of domestic productivity. This is the first empirical study specifically concentrating on the effect of education on counter-intuitive time allocation decisions of husbands. I find that the husband decreases his leisure time and increases time spent on housework and market labor as his educational attainment level increases.
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Authors: Yeon, Wonho
Institution: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department: Economics
Advisor: Steven Stern
Degree: Ph.D.
Publisher Location: New York
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Topics: Education, Other
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