Data and Code for: Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Goldin (2014) offers a narrative in which gender differences in home production responsibilities create gender gaps in labor market outcomes. We carry out a model based quantitative assessment of this narrative and find that empirically reasonable gender differences in home production time account for a significant share of gender gaps in three labor market outcomes: occupational choice, wages, and hours. Our analysis emphasizes two key elements not highlighted by Goldin (2014). One is heterogeneity in comparative advantage. This feature generates selection effects that are crucial for the model to be consistent with the fact that the gender wage gap is uncorrelated with occupational mean hours. Second, we explicitly model multi-member households that make joint decisions about occupational choice and hours of market work. Family interactions are a quantitatively important source of amplification. Gender differences in nonmarket responsibilities can have important aggregate effects on welfare and productivity, similar to those emphasized by Hsieh, Hurst, Jones and Klenow (2019).