We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …. Women's non-market time is independent of their husband's wage; but both housework and childcare of fathers react positively …