Fathers’ Childcare: The Differences Between Participation and Amount of Time

Nora Reich

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2014, vol. 35, issue 2, 190-213

Abstract: The main research question of this article was whether and how predictors of fathers’ participation in childcare, defined as zero versus more than zero minutes of childcare, differed from predictors of participating fathers’ amount of time on childcare, measured as minutes on the survey day. The sample was drawn from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) and covered surveys from ten industrialised countries from 1987 to 2005. Results showed that there were some similarities, but also remarkable differences between factors influencing participation in childcare and factors affecting participating fathers’ time spent with children. Thus they call for caution regarding findings from existing studies not distinguishing participation from participating fathers’ childcare minutes. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Childcare; Fatherhood; Time use; Censoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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