housework and childcare as household labor. Our work is extended by examining how culture operates and is transmitted. We study …

Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental childcare … consistently shown that parents who are in paid employment do not reduce their parental childcare time on an hour-for-hour basis …

parenthood-related career interruptions on earnings. We introduce childcare sharing in a collective model of household behavior … can be thought of as a two-stage process: Parents first agree on public expenditures on professional childcare; then … as distribution factors, we find evidence for Pareto efficiency in childcare sharing. More precisely, households with …

by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers …

work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the …

children below age 13 to investigate the paternal involvement in domestic childcare and the relation of the underlying … constellations which are most likely to manifest an increase in the proportion of paternal childcare in the post-pandemic period …

' flexible hours increase their willingness to contribute to childcare but not to household work, partially supporting hypothesis … to childcare or household work. We conclude our paper with some policy implications. …

Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic model designed to analyse the … effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the … model, children are a household good, produced by both parental time and time in childcare. Couples cannot commit to insure …

by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers …

investigate opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We … 'traditional' prepandemic childcare division, the lockdown stimulus was not nearly strong enough to level the playing field …