Table 6.

Participation in housework and weekly hours of housework: predictions from a two-part model, by sex and level of son preference

	No son preference (ideal proportion ≤ 0.5)			Son preference (ideal proportion > 0.5)
	Boy	Girl	Girl–Boy	Boy	Girl	Girl–Boy
Stage 1: probability of performing housework	0.50	0.67	0.17	0.49	0.85	0.36
Stage 2: hours of housework, among those with positive hours	7.54	9.53	1.99	7.62	10.00	2.38
Stage 1 and 2 combined: predicted hours of housework	4.46	7.45	2.99	4.41	8.76	4.34

Source Predictions based on a two-stage model: (1) random-effects logistic model of participation in housework among all children (N = 80,678, Groups = 3,847) (xtmelogit in Stata); (2) random-effects log-normal model of hours of work among those with positive hours (N = 45,397, Groups = 3,722) (xtmixed in Stata). The coefficients for the interaction SP * Girl in each stage are 0.319 and 0.031 both significant at 1 % level. Complete estimates are available in the supplementary material Appendix. The models include all mother and children’s characteristics, state characteristic, and regional and religious controls as in column (5) of Table 2

Source NHSF-3, 2005