TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lahga, Abdel Rahmen El
AU  - Moreau, Nicolas
        TI  - The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
        PY  - 2007/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2619
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2619
        AB  - We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented in Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to account for selection bias in the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women’s specialization in home-based activities and that marriage decreases women’s leisure. These effects are robust across specifications.
        KW  - marriage
KW  - household allocation
KW  - domestic production
KW  - labor supply
KW  - panel data
        ER  -