Cardia, Emanuela and Gomme, Paul (2018) Market work, housework and childcare: A time use approach. Review of Economic Dynamics, 29 . pp. 1-14. ISSN 10942025 (In Press)
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Abstract
Raising children takes considerable time, particularly for women. Yet, the role of childcare time has received scant attention in the macroeconomics literature. We develop a life-cycle model in which the time dimension of childcare plays a central role. An important contribution of the paper is estimation of the parameters of a childcare production function using data on primary and secondary childcare time as reported in the American Time Use Survey (2003–2014). The model does a better job matching the observed life-cycle patterns of womens' time use than a model without childcare. Our counterfactual experiments show that the increase in the relative wage of women since the 1960s is an important factor in the increase in womens' work time; changes in fertility associated with the baby boom play a smaller role, and changes in the price of durables are found to have a negligible effect. We consider the effects of cheaper daycare. Not surprisingly, this experiment leads to greater use of daycare and more time allocated to market work. A knock-on effect of cheaper daycare is a substantial decline in primary childcare time.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Economics |
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| Item Type: | Article |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Authors: | Cardia, Emanuela and Gomme, Paul |
| Journal or Publication: | Review of Economic Dynamics |
| Date: | December 2018 |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1016/j.red.2017.12.002 |
| Keywords: | Household technology; Childcare; Women labor force participation; Home production |
| ID Code: | 983371 |
| Deposited By: | Danielle Dennie |
| Deposited On: | 04 Jan 2018 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2018 01:01 |
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