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Distribution of household tasks, by sex and family size at age 16. Note: These figures refer to our estimation sample. We use the epanechnikov kernel function and bandwidth of 0.2.
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We here use data from the British Cohort Study (BCS) to link family size to age-16 children’s contribution to household chores and the adult housework gender gap. Assuming that home production is an increasing function of family size and using an instrument to account for the endogeneity of fertility, we show that larger families have a different e...
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... first goal is to estimate the impact of family size on teenagers' contributions to household tasks. To do so, we first show the Kernel density of the contribution to household chores of BCS cohort members at age 16 (calculated as the share of household tasks the cohort member helps with "Regularly", as opposed to "Sometimes" or "Rarely or never"), by gender and family size ( Fig. 1 ). Consistent with the extant literature, we find that, for any family size, girls contribute more to household tasks than boys do. ...
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... members at age 16 (calculated as the share of household tasks the cohort member helps with "Regularly", as opposed to "Sometimes" or "Rarely or never"), by gender and family size ( Fig. 1 ). Consistent with the extant literature, we find that, for any family size, girls contribute more to household tasks than boys do. The descriptive results in Fig. 1 further suggest that while family size does not much affect boys' contribution to housework, girls in larger families spend more time on household tasks than girls in smaller families ...
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... evidence in Fig. 1 is suggestive of a role of family size for girls, but does not address endogeneity. The distribution of fertility across households cannot be assumed to be random, as it depends on a set of both observable and unobservable household characteristics that may well be correlated with household tasks both during childhood and adulthood. ...
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... γ is the instrument's reduced-form effect and λ is a parameter varying between 0 and 1. As explained in Nybom (2017) , the adjusted effect of family size mechanically converges towards zero as λ converges to one. Fig. A1 shows the estimates of family size instrumented by the sex-composition of the first two children in the household, first for the whole sample and then separately for girls and boys. If λ is greater than 0.38 for the whole sample and greater than 0.45 for girls, the 2SLS estimates of instrumented family size are no longer significantly ...
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... the influence of a variety of factors (among which, the siblings sex composition) on the time children spend performing household chores. Using the German Time Use Study, Schulz (2021) Tables A6 and B1 ), the direct effect of the same-sex instrument on the dependent variable would neither be positive (making the positive upper bounds derived from Fig. A1 implausibly high) nor negative (in contrast with what we would expect theoretically from most of the cases described in our topology above), but rather nil. 13 ...
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