The Role of Non-standard Work Status in Parental Caregiving for Young Children

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel
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Jean Kimmel: Department of Economics, Western Michigan University

Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, vol. 37, issue 2, 248-269

Abstract: This paper uses data from the American Time Use Survey to examine the effect of the timing of parents’ daily work schedules on their caregiving time on weekdays. Since the timing of employment is a choice, the decision to work non-standard hours is modeled jointly with caregiving. We find that high-wage non-standard mothers provide more caregiving than lower-wage non-standard mothers, while caregiving time performed by standard-time working mothers is not responsive to their wages. For fathers, caregiving is shown to be strongly related to marital status, the age of his children and the presence of other adults in the household.

Date: 2011
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