The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners' activities

This paper documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. Children are shown to intensify the specialization in time use through reducing the apparent complementarity in time allocations of their parents.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Le, Anh T. ; Miller, Paul W.
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 108.2010, 2, p. 237-241
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Time allocations Gender Specialization Coordination

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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