Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time

Arbeitspapier

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 the estimator introduced by Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to system GMM estimation 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 12

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
• Subject: Labour ; family and networks ; econometrics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El ; Moreau, Nicolas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/150561
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