The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners' activities

Anh Le and Paul Miller

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 2, 237-241

Abstract: This paper documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. Children are shown to intensify the specialization in time use through reducing the apparent complementarity in time allocations of their parents.

Keywords: Time; allocations; Gender; Specialization; Coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165-1765(10)00123-0
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities (2010)
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:eee:ecolet:v:108:y:2010:i:2:p:237-241

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().