Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United Statesстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Abstract Abstract This paper argues 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 housework, not considering the simpler possibility of an association between women's absolute earnings and housework. Second, it tends to draw uniform inferences across the range of data, including regions where the data are sparse. This paper adopts a flexible, nonparametric approach to examine this relationship within a US context, while not imposing the polynomial specifications on data that characterize the two dominant models. The results provide support for an alternative model that emphasizes the importance of partners' own earnings for their housework, especially in the case of women. 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To account for the implausibly high values for housework hours reported by some respondents, we adopt a procedure used by Scott J. South and Glenna Spitze (1994 South, Scott J. and Spitze, Glenna. 1994. "Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households.". American Sociological Review, 59(3): 327–447. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Values higher than the 95th percentile are recoded to that percentile for each of the four chores before summing them to obtain the dependent variable. To maximize the number of usable cases, the mean number of hours for each task is imputed for men who do not specify or do not know how many hours they spend on that task. Also, zeros are substituted for men who do not answer the survey question for a particular task but report hours for at least five other tasks. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a nongovernmental group working for women's rights in the US. It was founded in 1966 and has about half a million members.
Год издания: 2007
Авторы: Sanjiv Gupta, Michael Ash
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Feminist Economics
Ключевые слова: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Work-Family Balance Challenges, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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