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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing evidence suggesting that a more equal division of labor within the home leads to more children,...
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the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …
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effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric …
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of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. Our results show … that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally … childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they …
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The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK … families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater …
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COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender …
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the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …
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