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 4 Ordered Probit Estimate of Satisfaction with Spouse

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

Independent Variables	Wife's Satisfaction with Husband
	Wife Not Working			Wife Working Part-time			Wife Working Full-time			Husband's Satisfaction with Wife
	(1)			(2)			(3)			(4)
	Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE
Share of Housework
Spouse: Weekday	-0.009	0.005	*	0.007	0.004	*	0.009	0.003	***	0.003	0.002	*
Spouse: Weekend	0.020	0.003	***	0.011	0.003	***	0.007	0.003	**	0.001	0.001
Other Family Members: Weekday	0.011	0.006	*	-0.00002	0.004		-0.002	0.004		-0.009	0.004	**
Other Family Members: Weekend	-0.015	0.006	***	0.002	0.006		0.003	0.005		0.011	0.004	**
Age	-0.023	0.013	*	-0.028	0.013	**	-0.002	0.015		-0.007	0.008
Education
Less than High School	-0.515	0.234	**	0.492	0.305		-0.763	0.472		-0.092	0.147
Junior College	-0.015	0.095		0.084	0.085		0.080	0.111		0.043	0.080
College	-0.092	0.113		0.063	0.112		0.029	0.145		-0.044	0.065
Log of Labor Income	-	-		-0.005	0.030		0.074	0.041	*	0.028	0.030
Spouse Age	-0.011	0.010		-0.012	0.010		-0.021	0.010	**	-0.008	0.007
Spouse Education
Less than High School	0.031	0.245		0.014	0.182		0.319	0.217		-0.265	0.177
Junior College	0.213	0.121	*	0.114	0.107		-0.124	0.138		0.003	0.060
College	0.087	0.096		0.132	0.091		0.197	0.117	*	0.171	0.070	**
Spouse Not Working	1.285	0.524	**	0.818	0.518		0.324	0.486		0.142	0.165
Spouse Works More than 60 h per Week	-0.085	0.078		0.151	0.083	*	0.112	0.094		0.351	0.212	*
Spouse Log of Labor Income	0.112	0.071		0.193	0.074	***	0.158	0.069	**	0.007	0.033
Length of Marriage	0.010	0.012		0.011	0.012		-0.003	0.013		-0.014	0.006	**
Number of Children
Preschool Children	-0.223	0.052	***	-0.224	0.066	***	-0.205	0.069	***	-0.146	0.037	***
Elementary School Children	-0.072	0.053		-0.068	0.054		-0.239	0.073	***	-0.068	0.036	*
Junior/High School Children	-0.192	0.067	***	-0.117	0.056	**	-0.254	0.066	***	-0.149	0.040	***
Children Older than 19	-0.100	0.103		-0.042	0.088		-0.071	0.092		0.055	0.056
Log pseudolikelihood	-1526.6			-1841.7			-1353.0			-4484.3
N	1060			1207			897			3104

Note: See note in Table 2 for other variables included in the regression. Robust standard errors clustered at the individual level are in parentheses.
*p < 0.05, **p <0.01, ***p < 0.001.

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