Search Results for Childcare Time

... (ATUS). We found marital status differentiated housework, leisure, and sleep time, but did not influence the amount of time that mothers provided childcare. Net of the number of employment hours, married mothers did more housework and slept less than never-married and divorced mothers, counter...

.... We pay particular attention to the continued socioeconomic bifurcation in women's access to full-time stable work, assessing whether changes in the education-related time gap are due to changes in who works and how much. We find that the gap in active childcare time between mothers with a college...

... of mother substitutes for childcare, especially in large families. Today employed mothers seek ways to maximize time with children: They remain quite likely to work part-time or to exit from the labor force for some years when their children are young; they also differ from nonemployed mothers in other uses...

... mothers, those with a male (vs. female) firstborn spend 2.9 more days per month on paid work and significantly less time on family chores, such as cooking food and washing and ironing clothes. We find no evidence of a reduction in maternal childcare if the preschool child is a boy, possibly because...

... but not for those in lone-parent households. Time use data from 1975 and 2003–2008 reveal that working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers in previous cohorts. Analysis of 2004 work schedule data suggests that non-daytime work...

... to adults increased over time. Gender and race inequality in total care work time experienced notable declines. Analyses show that these changes are driven by men's increased involvement in unpaid childcare and non-White women's declined involvement in some paid care jobs, respectively. Our framework...

..., likely reasons for the larger change, and the implications are discussed. 15 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2005 2005 Parental Time Maternal Employment Time Child Maternal Work Childcare Time References Bianchi , S. ( 2000 ). Maternal Employment and Time...

... of mother’s education, benefit from spending educational and structured time with their mothers, mothers who are high school graduates have the greatest difficulty balancing work and childcare. We find some evidence that fathers compensate for maternal employment by increasing types of activities that can...

... to investigate whether would-be grandparents’ propensity to care for their grandchildren influences the adult children’s transition to parenthood. Because grandparental childcare provision is not observable at the time of the transition to the first birth, I built a measure based on the characteristics of both...

... by the negative opportunity costs of having children if subsidized childcare increases mothers’ employment opportunities outside the home. Indeed, the increased opportunity costs of mothers’ time through increased female employment is believed to be one of the key drivers of fertility decline in developing...

... scenario. Results show that each family-friendly policy envisioned positively impacts ascribed fertility. The availability of full-time, public childcare services seems more relevant than higher child benefits, whereas more generous and gender-equal parental leaves are perceived as less relevant. However...

... are more likely to have a second child and work full-time. By contrast, the involvement of women in housework and childcare plays no role in men's decisions. These results are confirmed for women who want or intend to have a child, women whose partners also want a child, or women who intend to continue...

... Housework Time Childcare Time References Becker G. S. ( 1974 ). A Theory of Social Interactions . Journal of Political Economy , 82 , 1063 – 93 . 10.1086/260265 Becker G. S. ( 1991 ). A Treatise on the Family . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Becker G.S...

... were breadwinners ( Andrew et al. 2020 ). Whereas fathers' childcare time has increased, mothers' childcare time has not decreased ( Bianchi et al. 2000 ). Women play a central role in care, and men's time spent caregiving is often contingent on the women in their family ( Bracke et al. 2008...

...Adriaan Kalwij Abstract This article analyzes the impact on fertility of changes in national expenditure for family allowances, maternity- and parental-leave benefits, and childcare subsidies. To do so, I estimate a model for the timing of births using individual-level data from 16 western European...

...Youjin Choi; Rachel Margolis; Anders Holm Abstract Paid parental benefits, with individually earmarked time for mothers and fathers, aim to promote gender equality in labor force participation, wages, and childcare. The Canadian province of Québec expanded parental benefits over and above...

... the extent to which they persist vis-à-vis contemporary gender norms—including fathers' desires to spend more time with their children and endorsement of egalitarian parenting ( Ishizuka 2019 ; Townsend 2010 )—is unclear. The early stages of the pandemic, in which childcare demands increased but so did...

... were alive. These supports include childcare services as well as financial assistance that adult children receive from their parents ( Albertini et al. 2007 ), which may increase fertility by making it easier to manage economic and time constraints ( Barber and Axinn 1998 ; Harknett et al. 2014...

... time for employment and childcare is allocated freely according to prices and tastes, or whether time use is normatively and structurally constrained and thus itself is a price (De Tray, 1973; Easterlin, 1969; N arnboodiri, 1972; Tur- chi, 1975a). Economists have identified market structure...

... or taking time off for childcare may have little real productivity effects in itself but may neverthe- less generate signi cant wage effects whenever employers believe more family-oriented behaviors to be correlated with mothers lower productivity on the job and consequently decide to stigmatize working...