Women's employment and the decline of cooking time in France, 1985-2009.

Summary This study investigates the extent to which labour market changes explain the decline in time spent in home-cooking by married women in France, between 1986 and 2010. Using time use data and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions, we find that rising women’s employment and observed wages account together for about 60% of the decline in married women’s time spent in cooking. We then use a semiparametric matching technique.