Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), O7 3, 68161, Mannheim, Germany.
Demography. 2018 Dec;55(6):2181-2203. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0724-1.
Many people live in patrilocal societies, which prescribe that women move in with their husbands' parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labor market consequences, in particular for women. We study the effect of coresidence on female labor supply in Kyrgyzstan, a strongly patrilocal setting. We account for the endogeneity of coresidence by exploiting the tradition that youngest sons usually live with their parents. In both OLS and IV estimations, the effect of coresidence on female labor supply is negative and insignificant. This finding is in contrast to previous studies, which found positive effects in less patrilocal settings. We go beyond earlier work by investigating effect channels. In Kyrgyzstan, coresiding women invest more time in elder care than women who do not coreside, and they do not receive parental support in housework.
许多人生活在父系社会中，这种社会规定女性要搬去与丈夫的父母同住，为公婆分担家务，并在他们年老时照顾他们。这种安排可能会对劳动力市场产生影响，尤其是对女性。我们研究了吉尔吉斯斯坦这种强烈的父系社会中，与公婆同住对女性劳动力供给的影响。我们通过利用最小儿子通常与父母同住的传统，来解释与公婆同住的内生性。在OLS 和 IV 估计中，与公婆同住对女性劳动力供给的影响都是负向且不显著的。这一发现与之前在不那么父系社会中的研究结果形成了对比，那些研究发现了积极的影响。我们通过调查影响渠道，超越了之前的研究。在吉尔吉斯斯坦，与公婆同住的女性在老年护理上投入的时间比不住在一起的女性多，而且她们在做家务方面也得不到父母的支持。
