Exploring the relationship between parents’ and children’s housework time in Spain

Álvarez, Begoña Álvarez; Miles-Touya, Daniel

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“…Gutiérrez-Domenech (2010) concludes that parental education and labour market status are positively related to the time spent in childcare, since working parents with higher education spend more time with their children than non-working parents with less education. Alvarez and Miles (2012) find out that the types of gender roles between parents and children are positively correlated. For example, boys whose fathers do some domestic work devote more time to this type of tasks.…”

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“…Second, the participation in the "household chores" and "family care" encourages personal traits like the responsibility or the maturity and develops the feeling of being part of a family (e.g., Aronson et al 1996). Moreover, in the case of boys, it can be a mechanism to overcome the traditional division of domestic tasks at home (Alvarez and Miles 2012). Third, the activities associated with "social life and recreation" are a route to develop interpersonal communication, sociability, peer relationships and personal well-being through the face-to-face social network (e.g., Wellman and Wortley 1990).…”

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“…Some examples are the studies of Gutiérrez-Domenech (2010), Alvarez and Miles (2012) or Gracia (2014), which use data from the Spanish 2002-2003 Time Use Survey. Gutiérrez-Domenech (2010) concludes that parental education and labour market status are positively related to the time spent in childcare, since working parents with higher education spend more time with their children than non-working parents with less education.…”

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Adolescents’ Time Use in Spain: Does the Parental Human Capital Matter?

Caparrós-Ruiz

2016

Child Ind Res

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Adolescents' time use is an interesting topic for parents and policymakers. The concern arises because time allocation between productive and unproductive activities shapes the personality of children, which has important long-term consequences on their academic and employment success. Many studies conclude family environment affects how kids spend their time. The household type, the parents' characteristics and the family customs are related to the way children spend their time. An attractive issue is the effect of the parental education on the time use patterns of kids. The human capital acquired by the parents along with their relations with the family socioeconomic status, the social networks and the access to information constitute alternative scenarios that determine the activities of young people throughout the day and have an impact on their personal development and on their career. The primary objective of this paper is to analyse these topics for Spain, paying special attention to the influence of parents' education on children's time use. The empirical analysis use data from the Time Use Survey (INE). This dataset is suited for the purposes of this study since it uses a statistical measure called "time budget", which records the sequence and duration of activities conducted by a person over a period of 24 h and provides information about the personal characteristics of the household members. The specification and estimation of censored regression models is the methodology applied. The main results reveal that the adolescents' decisions about time allocation depend on their personal and family characteristics. In particular, parental education exerts a relevant influence on the participation and duration of productive or constructive activities, which is coherent with the predictions of the Ecological Systems Theory.

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2016

Child Ind Res

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“…Álvarez and Miles (2012) and Solaz and Wolff (2015)), invariably pointing to a positive effect of parental housework on children's housework. However, these studies are all descriptive.…”

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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenerational correlations in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel Survey, we find that only fathers' housework time appears to have a statistically significant effect. The IV estimates fully support the FE estimates and suggest that father's housework induced by his partner's non-traditional gender role attitudes towards domestic division of labour and her actual labour supply in the previous wave, has a large and significant effect on children's housework time. Our results contribute to the field of intergenerational mobility of behaviors. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S HIGHLIGHTS• study intergenerational mobility of housework using time use data and panel survey

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“…Although this gender gap has usually been addressed in relation to adults' housework activities (e.g., Bittman et al, ; Gershuny, ; Yu, ), such gendered patterns can be traced back to differentiated socialization during childhood (Goffman, ; Raley & Bianchi, ). Researchers in countries such as the United States (Blair, ; Manke, Seery, Crouter, & McHale, ), Sweden (Evertsson, ), and Spain (Álvarez & Miles‐Touya, ) have found that girls spend twice as much time as boys on housework, mirroring their adult counterparts. Given that the influence of early formations of gender identity, preferences, and behavior may persist in later life (Lundberg, ), it is important to examine the gendered socialization of children's housework behavior as a mechanism for the (re)production of gender inequalities.…”

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Gender and Children's Housework Time in China: Examining Behavior Modeling in Context

2015

J of Marriage and Family

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Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one's gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children's housework time. Although researchers have identified behavior modeling as a major mechanism of gender role reproduction and characterized gender socialization as a contextually embedded process, few have investigated contextual variation in behavior modeling, particularly in non-Western developing countries. Analyzing data from the China Family Panel Studies 2010, the author examined the differences in behavior modeling between boys and girls age 10-15 from 2-parent families (N = 1,903) in rural and urban China. The results revealed distinctive gendered interplays in the way parental housework and employment behavior helps shape children's housework time. This analysis is a crucial illustration of how the distinctive sociocultural contexts of rural and urban China moderate the effects of housework-behavior modeling on intergenerational gender role socialization. In the past few decades, despite a rise in women's paid employment, women in both China and the West continue to shoulder the lion's share of housework (Bittman, England, Sayer, Folbre, & Matheson, 2003;Gershuny, 2003;Yu, 2014). Although this gender gap has usually been addressed in relation to adults' housework activities (e.g., Bittman et al., 2003;Gershuny, 2004;Yu, 2014), such gendered patterns can be traced back to differentiated socialization during childhood (Goffman, 1977;Raley & Bianchi, 2006). Researchers in countries such as the United States (Blair, 1992;Manke, Seery, Crouter, & McHale, 1994), Sweden (Evertsson, 2006), and Spain (Álvarez & Miles-Touya, 2012) have found that girls spend twice as much time as boys on housework, mirroring their adult counterparts. Given that the influence of early formations of gender identity, preferences, and behavior may persist in later life (Lundberg, 2005), it is important to examine the gendered socialization of children's housework behavior as a mechanism for the (re)production of gender inequalities.Family matters as a "gender depot" (Goffman, 1977). In contemporary China, despite the strict enforcement of gender egalitarianism in the public sphere (Evans & Strauss, 2011), family remains a major site in which differentiated gender roles are reproduced (Zuo & Bian, 2001). Previous research has identified behavior modeling-children's imitation of parents' housework and employment behavior-as a key mechanism of gender role reproduction (Cunningham, 2001a(Cunningham, , 2001b, a fact that underlines the importance of intergenerational relationships between parents and children (Gupta, 2006;Raley & Bianchi, 2006). Despite its significant influence on children's gender roles, the institution of family does not operate alone (Greenstein, 1996). As Cunningham (2001b) noted, behavior modeling theorists have usually isolated intergenerational processes as an independent entity of a...

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Exploring the relationship between parents’ and children’s housework time in Spain

Cited by 36 publications

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Adolescents’ Time Use in Spain: Does the Parental Human Capital Matter?

Adolescents’ Time Use in Spain: Does the Parental Human Capital Matter?

Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

Gender and Children's Housework Time in China: Examining Behavior Modeling in Context

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