Children and Women's Hours of Work

By Gillian Paull. 2008

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The prevalence of women in part-time work continues to be a distinguishing feature of female employment in Britain. Using data from the BHPS, this article analyses the evolution of work hours for women and men during family formation and development. A substantial movement towards part-time work for women occurs with the first birth and continues steadily for ten years. The gender gap in hours subsequently diminishes but persists even after children have grown up. Births have little impact on men's hours, although there is some adjustment in the balance of work hours for couples following births and last school entry. Copyright 2008 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2008.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Fertility, Education and Norms (2017, unknown): “See, for example, Waldfogel (1998), Lundberg and Rose (2000), Correll et al. (2007), Sigle-Rushton and Waldfogel (2007a,b), Paull (2008), Bertrand et al. (2010), Wilde et al. (2010), Fernandez-Kranz et al. (2013), Fitzenberger et al. (2013), Goldin (2014), Adda et al. (2015), Angelov et al. (2016)…”
• MOVING D OWN: WOMEN'S P ART-TIME W ORK A ND OCCUPATIONAL C HANGE I N B RITAIN 1991-2001* (2008, unknown): “A substantial literature documents the major factors influencing a woman’s choices between full and part-time work: the number and ages of children, partner’s presence and income, and her own educational level (Paull, 2008).”
• Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark (2019, unknown): “This includes papers by Waldfogel (1998); Lundberg and Rose (2000); Sigle-Rushton and Waldfogel (2007a, b); Correll, Benard, and Paik (2007); Paull (2008); Bertrand, Goldin, and Katz (2010); Wilde, Batchelder, and Ellwood (2010); Fernández-Kranz, Lacuesta, and  Rodríguez-Planas (2013);…”
• The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents (2013, unknown): “(Paull, 2008), often with damaging consequences for”
• Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany (2016, unknown): “Women’s labour market behaviour highly depends on whether they have children (Paull, 2008), and hence, the number of children (no children, one child, two children, and three or more children) was used as a control.”
• Commuting times - The role of gender, children and part-time work (2012, unknown): “Paull (2008) identified that the birth of a child had little effect on a father's work time, but considerable effect on the mother's (reducing their work time), and indeed father's work hours might rise.”
• Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, background): “Typically, women reduce working hours and shift towards part-time employment at the time of first birth (Paull 2008).”