TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Booth, Alison L.
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
        PY  - 2005/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1884
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1884
        AB  - 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).
        KW  - gender identity
KW  - happiness
KW  - part-time work
        ER  -