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September 2012

Wife’s employment and allocation of resources in families with children

Ann C. Foster, Craig J. Kreisler

An examination of resource use by married parents finds that married men spent more time working on an average weekday or weekend day on which they worked than did married women; regardless of their wives’ employment status, married men were less likely to spend time in housework than wives who were not employed for pay.

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