Like my parents at home? Gender differences in children’s housework in Germany and Spain

Gimenez-Nadal, J. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Molina, J. A. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Ortega, R. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper analyzes the relationship between parents’ time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data for Germany and Spain from the Multinational Time Use Study, we find positive correlations between parents’ and children’s housework time, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children devote to housework. However, we find cross-country differences in these relationships. In Germany, both fathers’ and mothers’ housework is positively related to the time devoted to housework by their children, while in Spain this relationship only holds for fathers’ time. We also find that these results are not applicable to all subgroups of the population, as our analysis considering the labor force status and education of the parents yields mixed results.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s00181-016-1100-x

Año: 2017

Publicado en: Empirical Economics 52, 4 (2017), 1143-1179
ISSN: 0377-7332

Factor impacto JCR: 0.974 (2017)

Categ. JCR: SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS rank: 31 / 49 = 0.633 (2017) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 207 / 353 = 0.586 (2017) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.532 - Economics and Econometrics (Q2) - Mathematics (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Statistics and Probability (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2012-34828

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Organización de Empresas (Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas)
Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)