Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238668 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 978
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
Daycares closed on March 16, 2020 in Turkey to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the two most common nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey-care of children by grandparents and nannies-became undesirable due to health concerns and in some cases also unfeasible due to the partial lockdown for individuals under the age of 20 and over the age of 64. We estimate the potential impact of new constraints on nonparental childcare arrangements due to the pandemic on parental caregiving time of married parents of preschool-age children by using data from the 2014-15 Turkish Time Use Survey. Comparing how parental caregiving time varies by gender and use of nonparental childcare arrangements, we find that new constraints on nonparental childcare arrangements during the pandemic have potentially increased the gender difference in parental caregiving time by an hour and forty minutes in Turkey.
Subjects: 
Gender Economics
Time Use
Unpaid Labor
Turkey
COVID-19
JEL: 
D13
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
689.72 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.