Housework and Wages

By Joni Hersch, Leslie S. Stratton. 2000

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Administration

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In Economics and Econometrics

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2. Lawrence M. Kahn
3. Almudena Sevilla
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5. A. Konrad
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In General Health Professions

1. Francine D. Blau
2. Lawrence M. Kahn
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In Public Administration

1. Francine D. Blau
2. A. Konrad
3. Lawrence M. Kahn

Citations in the corpus

• Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas (2019, unknown): “This disproportionate amount of housework done by women, particularly timeinflexible and routine work, has been shown to contribute to the gender pay gap (Hersch and Stratton, 2002).”
• The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “An interesting result in Hersch and Stratton (2002) links the strength of the negative effects to the type of housework that women are typically more likely to perform—routine tasks like meal preparation, cleaning, shopping, and laundry—that are more likely to be engaged in on a daily basis and…”
• Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “…childcare commitments on the one hand, and job requirements on the other, carry a direct penalty on women’s earnings and careers as women reduce the hours of work to look after children (Hersch and Stratton, 2002; Sigle-Rushton and Waldfogel, 2007; Bryan and Sevilla, 2011; Kleven et al., 2019).”
• Gender Role Attitudes and Careers: A Longitudinal Study (2007, background): “The shift to more traditional gender roles has career implications for women; research has shown that time spent on household labor negatively impacts earnings and career success (Hersch and Stratton 2002; McAllister 1990; Shelton and Firestone 1989).”
• Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions (2009, background): “…components intend to make such an assumption 3 For examples of articles that adopt this pooling approach, see Oaxaca and Ransom (1994), Mavromaras and Rudolph (1997), DeLeire (2001), Hersch and Stratton (2002), Jacob (2002), Boden and Galizzi (2003), Gittleman and Wolff (2004), and Yount (2008).”