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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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, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with … effect for men, while childcare time has an effect on women's commuting time behavior only. Our results explain why prior …
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that, between earlier in 2020 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and June 2020, women had increased childcare … in the increase in hours of childcare and housework can be accounted for by a rich set of control variables. Instead, we …
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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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lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns …, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work interruptions … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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