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Department of Economics, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Publications

• Research Article   
  Why Do Women Work Harder than Men? Testing the Patrilocality Hypothesis
  Author(s): Irina Kovaleva and Leon Taylor*
  
  This article examines the idea that a woman living with her husband’s family is compelled by it to do more housework than he does. The key question in this “patrilocality” hypothesis is whether such a woman must do more housework than other women. We find direct evidence for this hypothesis in Kyrgyzstan by regressing the number of hours that the wife works outside of the house on a dummy variable indicating that she moved in with her husband’s family. An alternative to the patrilocality hypothesis states that the husband, rather than his family, compels his wife to do more of the housework. We find that the opposite is true: The wife works more hours outside of the home when her husband decides for the household than when he does not. This may be because he can share his wife’s income... View More»
  

  DOI: 10.36648/1479-1064.23.31.31

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