EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Childcare and commitment within households

Paula Gobbi

No 633, 2014 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents increases, the gap between childcare supplied by mothers relative to that supplied by fathers decreases. A two steps semi-cooperative marital decision model is proposed to explain these two facts. First, parents collectively choose the amount of labor to supply and, in a second step, each of them chooses the amount of childcare as the outcome of a Cournot game. This framework gives rise to indeterminacy of the equilibrium and four selection criteria are proposed: one of a machist society, one of a feminist society, one of a random equilibrium and a last one that estimates the degree of social gender bias towards men. The semi-cooperative theoretical frameworks with the random selection criterion and the criterion that estimates the bias towards men provide the best match with the data.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
https://red-files-public.s3.amazonaws.com/meetpapers/2014/paper_633.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Childcare and commitment within households (2018) Downloads
Working Paper: Childcare and Commitment within Households (2017) Downloads
Working Paper: Childcare and Commitment within Households (2017) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed014:633

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2014 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Society for Economic Dynamics Marina Azzimonti Department of Economics Stonybrook University 10 Nicolls Road Stonybrook NY 11790 USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christian Zimmermann (chuichuiche@gmail.com).

 
Page updated 2024-12-28
Handle: RePEc:red:sed014:633