The incremental time costs of children: An analysis of children's impact on adult time use in Australia
By Lyn Craig, M. Bittman. 2008
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Abstract Raising children takes both time and money. Scholars have sought convincing ways to capture the costs of children, but even when these estimates include indirect costs, such as mothers' foregone earnings, they fall short of the true time costs involved. This paper uses data from the 1997 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Time Use Survey to study how the allocation of time differs across households with varying numbers and ages of children and how households with children differ from those without children. It also examines the intra household division of time resources, showing how childcare, related unpaid work, and the total market and non-market workloads compare for a couple in the same household. It includes secondary activity in an analysis of total parental time commitments to give a more accurate picture of the time cost of children than is possible on the basis of analyzing “primary” activities alone.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- Self-employment, work-family time and the gender division of labour (2012, background): “Most fathers of young children are employed full-time, and while men have slightly increased their time doing housework and childcare, mothers still spend two to three times more time with children than do men (Casper and Bianchi, 2002; Craig and Bittman, 2008; Sullivan, 2006).”
- Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992—2006 (2010, background): “As a result, the amount of unpaid work required in households with children is much higher than in those without children (Craig and Bittman, 2008).”