The main research question of this article is whether and how predictors of fathers' participation in childcare …, defined as zero versus more than zero minutes of childcare, differ from predictors of participating fathers' amount of time on … childcare, measured as minutes on the survey day. The sample is drawn from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) and covers …

' participation in and time used for childcare? To answer this question, we merge data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS … from 1971 to 2005. Applying a selection model, we are estimating fathers' participation in childcare and the minutes per … day spent on childcare. We control for the following parental leave characteristics: duration of leave, amount of benefits …