Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals … related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the recent …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

This paper empirically and theoretically links parental time use decisions to child development in a household with two … decision. The effect of parental childcare time on children's educational outcome is tested using Danish time use data combined … on weekdays and children's outcomes as well as a positive association between fathers' childcare time on weekends and …