Co-resident Parents and Young People Aged 15–34: Who Does What Housework?

Craig, Lyn; Powell, Abigail; Brown, Judith E.

doi:10.1007/s11205-014-0643-5

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“…Women who are married rather than cohabitating on average do less childcare, and mothers' childcare time declines with the age of the child. That these factors affect mothers' childcare time, but not that of their partner is consistent with previous findings that women's unpaid work and childcare time is more responsive to spouse and family characteristics than is men's (Craig et al 2015;Sayer 2005).…”

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The Effect of a First Born Child on Work and Childcare Time Allocation: Pre-post Analysis of Australian Couples

2016

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This paper uses Australian data from a national representative sample of Australian couples having their first child. Using data from before and after the birth of the child on a range of variables, including economic resources, gender attitudes, workplace flexibility, and availability of non-parental childcare, we first model the factors are associated with the decision to remain in work or not after the birth of the first child. The main finding here is that childbirth has a major impact on mothers' paid work-time, whereas for fathers it has very little impact. Factors that are related to a mother's decision to remain in work or not include the absolute (but not relative) pay of each parent, the father's workplace flexibility, and paid parental leave available to the mother. We then model the factors that govern, for those mothers remaining in paid work, how much paid work they undertake. We find that changing employers is related to mothers' work hours, as are absolute post-birth salaries, as is the relative pay of each partner. As with the decision to work or not, the availability of paid parental leave to the mother is significantly related to the amount of work-time for those mothers that do continue to work. Similarly, the use of external childcare is positively associated with maternal work hours. Finally, we model the factors that determine childcare time allocation and find that for neither parent do pre-birth economic resources significantly affect childcare time, once a decision about basic work patterns has been made. Gender role attitudes affect childcare time decisions, unlike work time decisions.

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“…Parents also usually delegate more responsibilities relating to the running of the household to older children. This consideration is consistent with Craig et al (2015).…”

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“…When children are young and learning life skills they are likely to do little housework, especially independently (Bonke, 2010). When children grow, they develop their abilities and skills and are able to do more (Craig et al, 2015) and many different things until they become completely independent from their parents. From the point of view of their parentsthey are still their children regardless of whether they are 3 months or 3, 13 or 23 years old.…”

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Unpaid work performed by younger members of household up to 26 years in Slovakia

Považanová¹,

Kollár²,

Kika³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 22nd International Scientific Conference on Applications of Mathematics and Statistics in Economics (AMSE 20

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The paper deals with unpaid work in Slovak households whilst focusing upon unpaid work performed by younger members of the household. Studies of unpaid work of people up to 26 years are still not well documented in literature. The aim of this paper is twofold: First, it seeks to answer the question whether people with a lower-income status in Slovakia spend more time performing unpaid work in households in comparison to people with a higher-income status, and hence whether household income is an important determinant of unpaid housework performed by younger members of Slovak households. Second, the paper aims to determine also other factors that influence the volume of unpaid housework performed by younger members of Slovakia households. The results suggest that people in lower-income households in Slovakia spend more time in household labour than people in higherincome households. This applies to routine, non-routine as well as care household work. According to the results from a regression analysis, factors different from income are important determinants of household labour of younger members of Slovak households. Key words unpaid work, household, income, younger members up to 26 years, determinants of unpaid work JEL classification D13, J22 1 Note: despite there being some difference between family and household, for the purposes of our analysis taking into consideration also research sample which is under consideration in the paper, we are going to use these terms interchangeably. Similarly, we are going to use the terms household labor, housework and unpaid work in households interchangeably.

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“…Multilevel models are the best strategy for taking into account the nested structure of the data and for modeling the within‐country versus between‐country variation. Following previous time‐use studies (Craig, Powell, & Brown, ), we apply a generalized linear model (GLM) with a log link and the gamma family. This takes into account the many mostly male respondents reporting zero time in child care and ensures that time estimates are not negative, as might occur with a linear model.…”

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Educational Gradients in Parents' Child‐Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012

Sani

Treas

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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Parental time with children leads to posive child outcomes. Some studies have reported a posive educational gradient: More educated parents devote more time to children than other parents. Furthermore, some research finds that parental child care increased over time. Less certain is whether more educated parents increased their time more than less educated ones did, whether parenting trends for mothers and fathers are the same, and whether observed patterns characterize all Western countries or only some. Hypotheses inspired by theories of social diffusion, class differentiation, and ideologies of child rearing are tested with time‐use data for 11 Western countries between 1965 and 2012. For both mothers and fathers, results indicated a widespread educational gradient and an increase in child‐care time. In a number of countries, the posive educational gradient increased; nowhere was it dished. Thus, the advantages of intensive parenting continued to accrue to the well‐educated elite.

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Co-resident Parents and Young People Aged 15–34: Who Does What Housework?

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

The Effect of a First Born Child on Work and Childcare Time Allocation: Pre-post Analysis of Australian Couples

The Effect of a First Born Child on Work and Childcare Time Allocation: Pre-post Analysis of Australian Couples

Unpaid work performed by younger members of household up to 26 years in Slovakia

Educational Gradients in Parents' Child‐Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012

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