Mothers' time spent in care of their children and market work: a simultaneous model with attitudes as instruments

Peter Howie, John Wicks, John Fitzgerald (), Douglas Dalenberg and Rachel Connelly

Applied Economics Letters, 2006, vol. 13, issue 8, 503-506

Abstract: Using a model that addresses the potential endogeneity of employment hours on mothers' child care time and vice versa, by including instruments based on parental attitudes, we find a significant negative (but inelastic) relation between the two time uses.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500400546

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