The quality of time spent with children in Australian households

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Foster, Gigi

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“…For the estimation of the wage regressions, we selected a sample that includes individuals aged 18-60 years, not retired, or self-employed or in full-time 13 See Kalenkoski and Foster (2008) for a useful discussion of the quality of primary and secondary childcare. 14 In Italy, students are required to complete 8 years of schooling.…”

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?

2009

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The literature suggests that in Italy husbands contribute less to unpaid household work than in any other European country, while women have the lowest market employment rates. Here we examine the time allocation of Italian couples on which there are surprisingly few studies to date. We analyze simultaneously the time allocated by husband and wife to market work, childcare and housework, allowing for various interactions. We use data drawn from the Italian national Time Use Survey 2002-2003 for the analysis. We find that spousal time allocation is sensitive to personal and household characteristics, such as, in particular, education and children's age. Evidence shows that men married to more highly educated women spend more time with their children. The husband's own characteristics have less of an effect on women's time allocation. We also find that patterns differ substantially between weekends and weekdays. The estimated correlations between the unobservable factors affecting the couple's time allocation suggest that the time devoted by parents to childcare is complementary and that the time they devote to housework is substitutable across weekends and other weekdays.

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?

2009

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“…11 using Australian data indicate that women perform significantly more childcare than men (Kalenkoski and Foster 2008). …”

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Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households

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Stratton

2017

J Popul Econ

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“…Kalenkoski and Foster (2008) argue, however, that there are alternative ways of capturing the quality dimension of parental time inputs to child production. They propose alternative high-and lowquality time definitions that may be worth exploring in further research.…”

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Parents’ primary and secondary child care time adjustment to market time: Evidence from Australian mothers and fathers

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2017

Tax, Social Policy and Gender: Rethinking Equality and Efficiency

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The increase in female labour force participation in recent decades has arguably contributed to improved outcomes for women, such as higher earnings, savings and retirement incomes. There are, however, concerns about the implications of this trend for children's development. The link between parental child care time and children's development has been extensively explored in the psychology and sociology literature, and also more recently in the economics literature (Del Boca et al. 2014). Time is a limited resource that parents need to allocate to work and child care, alongside other uses. While it has been extensively documented that employed parents spend less time with children than non-employed ones, there is less evidence on the nature and magnitude of the trade-offs between child care and market time. How much child care time do mothers and fathers sacrifice when they increase their market time? How do mothers and fathers adjust their child care time in response to an increase in their partner's market time? Does the trade-off differ for different types of child care time or according to the age of children?

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The quality of time spent with children in Australian households

Abstract: Child care quality, Time diary data, Australia,

Cited by 38 publications

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?

An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?

Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households

Parents’ primary and secondary child care time adjustment to market time: Evidence from Australian mothers and fathers

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