The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

No 4219, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that 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 shifting among part-time employed mothers. I find no evidence that full-time employed mothers adjust their schedules to spent time with their children at more-preferred times of day, whereas part-time employed mothers shift employment to later in the day.

Keywords: childcare; timing of activities; time use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2009-06
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Published - published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200

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