Sullivan, O;
Gershuny, J;
(2016)
Change in Spousal Human Capital and Housework: A Longitudinal Analysis.
European Sociological Review
, 32
(6)
pp. 864-880.
10.1093/esr/jcw043.
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Abstract
We bring a novel, longitudinal, perspective to an ongoing series of influential papers that investigates the relationship between housework, marital bargaining, and spousal resources. For the first time, we believe, in this long debate, we combine a longitudinal perspective with a measure of resources—human capital—that provides an indicator of the likely economic bargaining power of the non-employed, thereby enabling their inclusion in analysis. We use longitudinal fixed-effects models to address the relationship between housework hours and spousal resources based on yearly couples’ data from the nationally representative British Household Panel Study (N = 6,541 couples). Using the measure of human capital, we find change in wives’ own human capital to be the most important factor determining housework for both spouses, and no evidence for gender deviance neutralization. We conclude it is women’s resources that are the critical determining factor in bargaining over housework.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Change in Spousal Human Capital and Housework: A Longitudinal Analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/esr/jcw043 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw043 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072379 |
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