TY  - RPRT
        AU  - García-Mainar, Inmaculada
AU  - Molina, José Alberto
AU  - Montuenga, Víctor M.
        TI  - Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
        PY  - 2009/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4188
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4188
        AB  - This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001). Empirical results show a clear inequality in childcare between fathers and mothers, with this being more evident in Mediterranean countries. Panel data estimates reveal that, in general, caring tasks are mainly influenced by the presence of young children in the household, by the total non-labor income, and by the ratio of mothers' non-labor income to family's non-labor income, with this latter variable exhibiting a different behavior across genders and across countries.
        KW  - intra-household allocation
KW  - gender differences
KW  - childcare
KW  - time use
        ER  -