In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children …

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children …

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 …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across …

this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …

taken from the 2002 Bank of Italy Survey. We conclude that Italian husbands’ time allocation responds to their wife …