Auspurg Katrin, Iacovou Maria, Nicoletti Cheti
Department of Sociology, LMU Munich, Konradstr. 6, DE-80801 Munich, Germany.
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, United Kingdom.
Soc Sci Res. 2017 Aug;66:118-139. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.01.003. Epub 2017 Jan 16.
This paper uses a novel vignette-based experimental design to investigate the reasons underlying the gendered division of housework. We are particularly interested in the role of gender-specific preferences: are there differences in the utility that men and women derive from housework, and might these be responsible for the fact that women continue to do more housework than men? It is difficult to address these questions with conventional survey data, because of inherent problems with endogeneity and ex-post rationalization; our experimental design circumvents these problems. We find remarkably little evidence of any systematic gender differences in preferences, and a general inclination towards an equal distribution of housework; this suggests that the reasons for the gendered division of housework do not derive from gender differences in preferences, and must lie elsewhere.
本文采用了一种基于新颖小场景的实验设计来探究家务劳动性别分工背后的原因。我们特别关注特定性别的偏好所起的作用：男性和女性从家务劳动中获得的效用是否存在差异，以及这些差异是否可能是女性继续比男性承担更多家务这一事实的原因？由于存在内生性和事后合理化等固有问题，用传统调查数据很难解决这些问题；我们的实验设计规避了这些问题。我们发现几乎没有证据表明在偏好方面存在任何系统性的性别差异，而且普遍倾向于家务的平等分配；这表明家务劳动性别分工的原因并非源于偏好上的性别差异，而必定存在于其他方面。
