Table 3.

Regressions on within-couple gender gap changes

	Housework		Childcare		Educational childcare
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Man and woman working	0.055	0.0141	− 0.282	− 0.310	− 0.382†	− 0.400†
	(0.219)	(0.221)	(0.258)	(0.259)	(0.207)	(0.207)
Working from home—woman	0.363	0.220	0.655*	0.645*	0.753**	0.697**
	(0.233)	(0.258)	(0.285)	(0.316)	(0.228)	(0.252)
Change in hours of work—man	0.053†	0.057†	0.085*	0.086*	0.057*	0.055*
	(0.028)	(0.029)	(0.033)	(0.034)	(0.027)	(0.027)
Change in hours of work—woman	− 0.099**	− 0.102**	− 0.089*	− 0.093*	− 0.056†	− 0.068*
	(0.032)	(0.033)	(0.038)	(0.039)	(0.031)	(0.031)
From home * change hs.—woman	0.010	0.001	− 0.133†	− 0.118	− 0.031	− 0.022
	(0.063)	(0.0640)	(0.074)	(0.075)	(0.059)	(0.060)
Domestic Employee	0.645**	0.450†	− 0.050	− 0.078	0.525*	0.400
	(0.230)	(0.257)	(0.281)	(0.315)	(0.225)	(0.251)
Controls	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Observations	961	961	785	785	785	785
R-squared	0.031	0.040	0.039	0.048	0.047	0.063

“Housework” is the within-couple gender gap change in hours allocated to housework; “Childcare” is the within-couple gender gap change in hours allocated to childcare; “Educational Childcare” is the within-couple gender gap change in hours allocated to educational support. All changes compare the within-couple gender gaps before and during lockdown. Within-couple gender gaps are defined as hours allocated to the activity by the woman minus hours allocated to the same activity by the man. For “Housework” all couples are included, for “Childcare” and “Educational Childcare” only couples with children are included. The set of controls is: woman’s level of education, woman’s age, an indicator if the family belongs to the lowest two income quintiles, number of children in the household and regional variables. Standard errors in parenthesis. Full set of estimates are reported in Table B.3 of Appendix B

^† p < 0.1, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01