Table 1.

Spouses’ Characteristics: Descriptive Statistics (N = 796)

Variables	M	SD
Wife’s annual earnings	$43,111.17	$31,828.80
Husband’s annual earnings	$68,351.66	$43,050.04
Wife has bachelor’s degreea	0.36	0.48
Husband has bachelor’s degreeb	0.40	0.49
Wife is African Americanc	0.04	0.20
Wife’s weekly labor-market hours	38.03	11.67
Husband’s weekly labor-market hours	44.93	11.63
Residents other than coupled	0.44	0.50
Rooms in the home	7.23	1.86
Share of wife’s adult years employed	0.73	0.20
Number of children ever born to wife	2.16	1.31
Wife’s age	54.05	4.91
Husband’s age	56.81	4.51
Wife’s weekly hours cooking	6.62	4.29
Wife’s weekly hours cleaning	7.97	5.44
Monthly spending on cleaning/laundry services, if positive	$66.32	$77.85
Monthly spending on cleaning/laundry supplies, if positive	$35.33	$27.41
Monthly spending on dining out, if positive	$217.32	$177.50
Monthly spending on groceries, if positive	$485.34	$255.98

^aWife has bachelor’s degree: 0 = no; 1 = yes.

^bHusband has bachelor’s degree: 0 = no; 1 = yes.

^cWife is African American: 0 = no; 1 = yes.

^dResidents other than couple: 0 = no; 1 = yes.