The time benefits of young adult home stayers in France and Italy: a new perspective on the transition to adulthood?

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 3 Participation in domestic activities in minutes per day

	Only country variable	+ age	+ education	+ employment status	+ sibling size and composition	+ mother’s characteristics	+ home and domestic help
Men
Italy (ref=France)	−45.754***	−53.310***	−52.004***	−50.280***	−48.854***	−43.570***	−37.918***
se	(6.588)	(6.761)	(6.892)	(6.909)	(7.152)	(7.523)	(7.705)
Marginal effect	−21.29	−25.22	−24.51	−23.58	−22.84	−20.1	−17.27
Women
Italy (ref=France)	−2.254	−11.696*	−9.741	−17.556***	−16.608**	−14.282**	−15.185**
se	(6.481)	(6.609)	(6.765)	(6.523)	(6.723)	(7.033)	(7.317)
Marginal effect	−1.69	−8.9	−7.41	−13.65	−12.91	−11.09	−12.64

French (1999) and Italian (2003) time-use surveys, pooled data
Controlled always for interview day: + age, age squared, + education level, + activity status, + number of children under 18, number of young adults, sex composition of the young adults siblings, + mother’s employment status, mother’s level of education, + number of rooms, presence of a garden, access to domestic services, town size.
Standard errors in parentheses, *significant at 10%, **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%
Tobit model comparing Italy with respect to France, with stepwise introduction of control variables