Abstract
This paper empirically and theoretically links parental time use decisions to child development in a household with two full-time employed parents. Both parents time spent on childcare is explicitly taken into account as well as childcare bought in the market. It is shown that the quality of market-provided childcare vs. the quality of parental childcare is crucial for parentstime use de- cisions but availability of paternal childcare does not directly a¤ect the mothers childcare decision. The e¤ect of parental childcare time on childrens educa- tional outcome is tested using Danish time use data combined with administra- tive register data. I nd a statistically signi cant positive association between motherschildcare time on weekdays and childrens outcomes as well as a pos- itive association between fathers childcare time on weekends and childrens outcomes. Parentstime spent on childcare is negatively related to the amount of time spent on paid work.
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