This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household … Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001). Empirical results show a clear inequality in childcare between fathers and mothers, with this …

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 … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …

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 … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …

childcare time were found within the household (fathers or other co-resident adults). -- Time use ; parents ; 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 …

for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5 … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …

, on the other hand, parental employment reduces the amount of time parents spend with their children. …

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 …. Since there are only 24 hours in the day, how do parents continue to be engaged in direct care of their own children while …

for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …