Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 17
Cover Image
Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
Cover Image
The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown
Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253646
Cover Image
Intensive mothering and well-being : the role of education and child care activity
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2016
The ideology of intensive mothering, whereby mother's time is thought of as crucial for child development, continues to be the dominant cultural framework in the United States. Yet there is little evidence about how mothers differ in their child care experiences from large representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497224
Cover Image
Parental time investments in children : the role of competition for university places in the UK
Sevilla, Almudena; Borra, Cristina - 2015
We use novel diary surveys coupled with universities' administrative student data for the last three decades to document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain growing gaps in time investments between college and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294094
Cover Image
Birth order and child cognitive outcomes : an exploration of the parental time mechanism
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 5/6, pp. 481-495
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710004
Cover Image
Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018
later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to … have significant effects Our results may imply that policies encouraging childcare expansion should also take into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805102
Cover Image
Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018
later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to … have significant effects Our results may imply that policies encouraging childcare expansion should also take into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810097
Cover Image
Early childhood education attendance and students' later outcomes in Europe
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 4, pp. 1081-1136
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437580
Cover Image
The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown
Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2021
' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and that mothers spent substantially longer doing childcare and housework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583572
Cover Image
The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work Under Lockdown
Andrew, Alison - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827988