Husbands' housework time: Does wives' paid employment make a difference?

Investigaciones Economicas

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-31

  Álvarez, Begoña ^a   Miles, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Count data models; Endogeneity; Female labour supply; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849135795     PISSN: 02101521     EISSN: 15754367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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