mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with … their children at more-desirable times of day. I find that employed mothers shift enriching childcare time from workdays to … nonwork days. On workdays, full-time employed parents shift enriching childcare time toward evenings, but there is little …

mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with … their children at more-desirable times of day. I find that employed mothers shift enriching childcare time from workdays to … nonwork days. On workdays, full-time employed parents shift enriching childcare time toward evenings, but there is little …

pre-school-age children engage in enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their … children at more-desirable times of day. I find that employed mothers shift enriching childcare time from workdays to nonwork … days. On workdays, full-time employed parents shift enriching childcare time toward evenings, but there is little time …

College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared … negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer …

quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …

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 …