children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who … working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers …

In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near … future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …, the USA, the UK, and Germany. Substantial closing of the gap in the 1970s and 1980s was followed by stability since then …

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …