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 … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while …

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women?s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on … each of the years 1987-1991. We find, as in U.S. studies, that housework has negative effects on the wages of women and …, housework has a positive effect on the wages of women and a negative effect on the wages of men, and in fact, high-wage men …

The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that … household production activities. This model implies associations between household productivity factors and both child outcomes … Surveys to examine the empirical validity of these implications. Consistent with our model's predictions, household …

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household … work but German invest more in household production. This paper examines whether these differences in the allocation of …

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … subsidies in terms of increasing average hours worked and household income. However, tax credits disproportionately benefit …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …