Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
By Alison L. Booth, J. van Ours. Social Science Research Network, 2009
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Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of Akerlof and Kranton (2000).
Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being (2010, unknown): “35Another test of the gender identity hypothesis based on data on reported subjective well-being is by Booth and van Ours (2008) .”
- Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle (2008, unknown): “Winkelmann (2005) uses the GSOEP to examine inter-dependence across generations, using random effects estimation.(4) In a previous paper (Booth and Van Ours, 2005), we investigated the relationship between part-time work and family well-being for Australian couples.”
- The relationship between well-being and commuting revisited: Does the choice of methodology matter? (2014, methodology): “Chamberlain (1980) shows that maximizing the conditional log-likelihood LL = ∑ N i=1 ln [ Pr(d i | ∑ T t=1 d it = ai) ] gives a consistent estimate of β. While in principle any cutoff 2 ≤ k ≤ K can be used in the estimation it is important to note that individuals with constant d it do not contribut”
- Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, background): “With an open hours per week response option, the item reads:”