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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP13782 |
DP13782 The gender gap in informal child care: theory and some evidence from Italy | |
Francesca Barigozzi; Helmuth Cremer; Chiara Monfardini | |
发表日期 | 2019-06-05 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Our model studies couples' time allocation and career choices, which are affected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children's social and cognitive skills). We obtain the following main results. Traditional mothers provide some informal basic care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal basic care in the market. Informal basic care is too large and the group of career mothers is too small because of the social norm. Informal quality care is increasing in the couple's income and is provided in larger amount by mothers. We test the model's predictions for Italy using the most recent ISTAT "Use of Time" survey. In line with the model, mothers devote more time than fathers to both basic and quality informal care; more educated parents devote more time to quality informal care than less educated parents; more educated mothers spend more time in the labor market than less educated mothers. |
主题 | Public Economics |
关键词 | Social norms Basic and quality child care Women's career choices Gender gaps |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13782 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542650 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francesca Barigozzi,Helmuth Cremer,Chiara Monfardini. DP13782 The gender gap in informal child care: theory and some evidence from Italy. 2019. |
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