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which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the … role of the State in the provision of care services is marginal. Very low fertility poses challenges for economic growth … industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …
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paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender … differences in the allocation of domestic work cannot be straightforwardly explained by gender differences in employment rates or …
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This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
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prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for … substantial reductions in the time allocated to basic child care by college-educated mothers of non-school age children. However …
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share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
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This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several … sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport …
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