%0 Report
        %A Gottlieb, Charles
%A Doss, Cheryl
%A Gollin, Douglas
%A Poschke, Markus
        %T The Gender Division of Work across Countries
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16896
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16896
        %X Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global income distribution. A striking feature of the data is the wide dispersion across countries at similar income levels. We use these data to motivate a macroeconomic model of household time use in which country-level allocations are shaped by wages and a set of "wedges" that resemble productivity, preferences, and disutilities. Taking the model to country-level observations, we find that a wedge related to the disutility of market work for women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries. Variation in the division of non-market work is principally shaped by a wedge indicating greater disutility for men, which is especially large in some low- and middle-income countries.
        %K labor supply
%K home production
%K care work
%K time use
%K gender inequality
%K gender norms