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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2010 Nov 1;39(6):987–1003. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.08.005

Table A1.

Results from Models of Husbands’ Housework Hours, Including Relative Earnings

Linear Earnings Spline Earnings
Cross-Section Panel Panel
Relative Earnings
    Wife's Share of Earnings 2.85 (3.49) 0.99 (3.54) -1.79 (4.38)
    (Share)2 -1.25 (3.51) 1.69 (3.31) 3.45 (3.81)
Annual Earnings
    His Annual Earningsa -0.05 (0.05) 0.01 (0.05) -0.03 (0.05)
    Her Annual Earningsa 0.07 (0.09) -0.05 (0.10) N/A
        First Quartile N/A N/A -0.10 (0.36)
        Second Quartile N/A N/A 0.38 (0.28)
        Third Quartile N/A N/A 0.20 (0.20)
        Fourth Quartile N/A N/A -0.14 (0.11)
Children
    Age of youngest child -0.08 (0.02)*** -0.10 (0.02)*** -0.10 (0.02)***
    >=1 child 1.40 (0.26)*** 1.59 (0.27)*** 1.60 (0.27)***
    >=2 children 0.46 (0.21)* 0.14 (0.20) 0.13 (0.20)
    >=3 children 1.30 (0.31)*** 0.12 (0.31) 0.13 (0.31)
Labor Force Hours
    Husband's LF Hours -0.07 (0.01)*** -0.04 (0.01)*** -0.05 (0.01)***
    Wife's LF Hours 0.04 (0.02)* 0.03 (0.01)* 0.03 (0.01)*
Year 0.05 (0.01)*** 0.03 (0.02) 0.03 (0.02)
R2 / R2 overall 0.06 0.06 0.06
Rho (fraction of variance due to individual-specific fixed effects) N/A 0.56 0.56

Notes: Results shown are regression coefficients with standard errors in parentheses. The sample includes a subset of the main analytic sample, restricted to observations in which the husband provides a report of his weekly housework time. This subsample includes 20,119 observations from 5,034 couples. In the cross-sectional models, standard errors are clustered at the couple level. All significance tests are two-tailed. All models also control for whether the couple owns their home, rents, or neither owns nor rents, and whether the wife or another member of her household was the respondent in each wave. The cross-sectional model also controls for the ages of each spouse, whether each spouse has a bachelor's degree, and whether the husband is African-American. The knots of the spline are placed at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of the weighted earnings distribution for wives in the full sample: $23,925, $33,671, and $47,939.

a

Earnings are measured in $10,000s

*

p<.05.

**p<.01.

***

p<0.001.