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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
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using … differences in how men and women who have done some child caregiving on the previous day feel when engaged in a set of common … daily activities. We find that both men and women enjoy their time in child caregiving, men as much, or even more so, than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
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Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development : Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia
Azpitarte, Francisco - 2016
This paper investigates patterns of childcare use and their influence on the cognitive development of Indigenous children. The influence of childcare on the cognitive outcomes of Indigenous children is less well understood than for non-Indigenous children due to a lack of appropriate data. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977725
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How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?
Kiessling, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242757
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Can you stay at home today? : the relationship between economic dependence, parents' occupation and care leave for sick children
Boye, Katarina - 2014
This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents' work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251043
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By what measure? : family time devoted to children in the U.S.
Folbre, Nancy; Yoon, Jayoung; Finnoff, Kade; Fuligni, … - 2004
We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and … the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics sheds light on these three problems and develops …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527217
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794700
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387655
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Fathers matter: intra-household responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - 2020
The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255705
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299373