Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33803 
Year of Publication: 
2007
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IZA Discussion Papers No. 2619
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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
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