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- Title
Children's housework -- Are girls more active than boys?
- Authors
Bonke, Jens
- Abstract
This paper examines boys' and girls' housework in a Nordic welfare state which is characterized by both high labor market participation rates for mothers and fathers and a narrow income distribution which makes it expensive for ordinary parents to hire paid household help. We use data from the European Community Household Panel Survey 1998 and run to bit-regressions to take the number of children reporting no housework into consideration. The results show that children do only a minor part of the total housework, and that boys participate less than girls. There is a positive impact of mothers' full time work on children's housework, while mothers having a higher education level decrease boys' participation in housework. Finally, the time children spend on paid work is found more positively correlated with girls' than with boys' contributions to housework.
- Subjects
BOYS; GIRLS; WELFARE state; LABOR supply; INCOME inequality; HOUSEKEEPING
- Publication
Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1860-9937
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13085/eijtur.7.1.1-16