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Item Restricted Double burden: the degree to which menopausal status hampers professional and domestic productivity of women(2025-05-27) Celeste, Princess Roselle G.; Flores, Rhiannon Jae G.; Solon, Orville Jose C.This paper examines the effect of menopause on the labor productivity of mothers, especially on both paid and unpaid work, which in tandem are commonly referred to as double burden due to its premise of a singular individual shouldering significant amounts of both. We refer to Grossman’s Model of Health Demand to explain how symptoms of menopause can affect work productivity of either type. A difference-in-difference model was used to estimate potential differences in either paid or unpaid hours worked among mothers who have and have not experienced menopause. This model was applied to participants of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey Dataset and its follow-ups from the years 1998-1999, 2002, and 2005. Our estimates show that menopausal mothers worked 75.64 hours less than mothers who have not undergone menopause in general. However, other factors such as educational attainment, socioeconomic status, marital status, and number of children may change the relationship between menopause and the number of paid hours worked. That said, menopause did not seem to have significant effects on frequency of absence. On the other hand, our estimates indicate that menopause does not have a significant effect on the number of hours spent on unpaid work in general. It instead affects how other factors influence menopause. These findings thus provide nuance to the current discussion regarding the effects of menopause on labor.