Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51763 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5761
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the typical two-parent family but not for those in lone-parent households. Time use data from 1975 and 2003-2008 reveal that working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers in previous cohorts. Analysis of 2004 work schedule data suggests that non-daytime work provides an alternative method of coordinating employment schedules for some dual-earner families.
Subjects: 
parental employment
child care time
work family balance
coordinated work schedules
JEL: 
J13
J22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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