Replication data for: Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Dominique Goux; Eric Maurin; Barbara Petrongolo

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Goux, Dominique, Maurin, Eric, and Petrongolo, Barbara. Replication data for: Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112726V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the nonusual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier constraints in the organization of their workweek.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      K31 Labor Law


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