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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319438
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264270
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Where do they find the time?: An analysis of how parents shift and squeeze their time around work and child care
Craig, Lyn - 2006
Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental childcare …. This has given rise to concern that children are missing out on parental attention. However, time-use studies have …. Since there are only 24 hours in the day, how do parents continue to be engaged in direct care of their own children while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266618
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615932
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532925
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481567
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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564018
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Fathers' childcare: The difference between participation and amount of time
Reich, Nora - 2012
factors influencing participation in childcare and factors associated with participating fathers' time spent with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308117
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Fathers' childcare and parental leave policies: Evidence from Western European Countries and Canada
Reich, Nora; Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2012
The study at hand pursues the following question: How are national parental leave arrangements related to fathers' participation in and time used for childcare? To answer this question, we merge data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) with national parental leave characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308118
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, Christa Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2020
We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294297