Borra Marcos, CristinaBrowning, MartinSevilla, Almudena2025-01-232025-01-232021-04Borra Marcos, C., Browning, M. y Sevilla, A. (2021). Marriage and housework. Oxford Economic Papers, 73 (2), 479-508. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa026.1464-3812https://hdl.handle.net/11441/167369This article provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Time-varying observed variables and time-invariant heterogeneity explains about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine one-and-a-half-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in routine and men in non-routine housework tasks.application/pdf30 p.engMarriageTime useHome productioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa026