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

Table 5 Marginal Probability Effects of Spousal Share of Housework on Satisfaction with Spouse (Marginal effects at the mean)

Wife's Satisfaction with Husband	Wife Not Working				Wife Working Part-time				Wife Working Full-time					Husband		Husband
	Husband's Weekday Share of Housework		Husband's Weekend Share of Housework		Husband's Weekday Share of Housework		Husband's Weekend Share of Housework		Husband's Weekday Share of Housework		Husband's Weekend Share of Housework		Husband's Satisfaction with Wife	Wife's Weekday Share of Housework		Wife's Weekend Share of Housework
	dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE		dy/dx	SE	dy/dx	SE
1 = completely unhappy	0.039	0.022 *	-0.086	0.020 ***	-0.054	0.033	-0.084	0.024 ***	-0.075	0.024 ***	-0.059	0.024 ***	1 = completely unhappy	-0.010	0.006 *	-0.003	0.005
2	0.060	0.033 *	-0.133	0.027 ***	-0.062	0.037 *	-0.097	0.030 ***	-0.077	0.026 ***	-0.061	0.024 ***	2	-0.021	0.011 *	-0.007	0.010
3	0.145	0.076 *	-0.320	0.050 ***	-0.105	0.063 *	-0.163	0.046 ***	-0.132	0.041 ***	-0.104	0.042 ***	3	-0.037	0.021 *	-0.012	0.018
4	0.126	0.066 *	-0.278	0.044 ***	-0.053	0.033	-0.082	0.026 ***	-0.081	0.026 ***	-0.064	0.028 ***	4	-0.047	0.025 *	-0.015	0.022
5	-0.161	0.085 *	0.355	0.057 ***	0.132	0.079 *	0.207	0.058 ***	0.149	0.046 ***	0.117	0.048 ***	5	0.031	0.017 *	0.010	0.015
6 = completely happy	-0.209	0.110 *	0.462	0.065 ***	0.141	0.084 *	0.220	0.061 ***	0.217	0.064 ***	0.170	0.068 ***	6 = completely happy	0.085	0.046 *	0.028	0.040

Note: Table 5 reports average marginal probability effects of spousal share of housework (from 0 to 100 percent) on satisfaction with spouse. 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.