Sharing housework between husbands and wives: how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan

Kobayashi, Mayu; Kobayashi, Miki; Okumura, Tsunao; Usui, Emiko

doi:10.1186/s40173-016-0074-9

Table 2 OLS estimate of the shares of wife’s and husband’s housework on weekdays and weekends

From: Sharing housework between husbands and wives: how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan

	Wife’s weekday share of housework			Wife’s weekend share of housework			Husband’s weekday share of housework			Husband’s weekend share of housework
Variables	Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE
Wife’s age	0.393	0.089	***	0.387	0.097	***	−0.317	0.077	***	−0.315	0.089	***
Wife’s education
Less than high school	−0.966	2.504		0.559	2.454		0.612	1.829		0.058	2.109
Junior college	0.808	0.712		0.830	0.758		−0.765	0.551		−0.736	0.675
College	0.180	0.821		−0.006	0.914		0.626	0.680		0.707	0.847
Wife works part-time	6.857	1.609	***	5.254	1.610	***	−4.833	1.304	***	−4.436	1.483	***
Wife works full-time	−3.029	2.036		0.310	2.017		3.033	1.654	*	−0.244	1.833
Wife’s log of labor income	−2.274	0.356	***	−1.639	0.338	***	1.703	0.290	***	1.463	0.312	***
Husband’s age	−0.211	0.077	***	−0.016	0.077		0.192	0.066	***	0.036	0.071
Husband’s education
Less than high school	0.838	1.887		0.219	1.985		−1.248	1.419		−0.575	1.662
Junior college	1.641	0.882	*	−0.579	0.942		−0.718	0.699		1.594	0.849	*
College	0.656	0.746		−1.020	0.810		−0.253	0.593		1.843	0.727	**
Husband not working	9.406	5.090	*	−1.390	4.681		0.236	4.689		8.837	4.472	**
Husband works more than 60 h per week	3.776	0.579	***	4.216	0.638	***	−3.453	0.461	***	−3.996	0.577	***
Husband’s log of labor income	3.735	0.594	***	0.729	0.544		−2.395	0.483	***	0.339	0.491
Length of marriage	0.103	0.083		0.111	0.089		−0.156	0.071	**	−0.165	0.081	**
Number of children
Preschool children	0.168	0.398		−0.692	0.448		−0.957	0.331	***	0.446	0.415
Elementary school children	−0.784	0.402	*	−0.401	0.430		−0.823	0.319	***	−1.114	0.386	***
Junior/high school children	−0.832	0.445	*	−0.270	0.482		−1.178	0.366	***	−1.612	0.436	***
Children older than 19	−0.632	0.706		−0.279	0.755		−1.139	0.593	*	−1.225	0.688	*
Respondent is wife	5.747	0.581	***	7.189	0.621	***	−6.030	0.478	***	−7.536	0.570	***
R ²	0.190			0.110			0.216			0.152
N	6318			6300			6318			6300

Note: All models include an indicator variable for whether the family has a mortgage, the amount of any monthly mortgage payment, whether the amount of the mortgage was not reported, whether the total family assets were not reported, the amount of total family assets, the respondents’ place of residence, and the survey year. Robust standard errors clustered at the individual level are in parentheses
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001

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