TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fox,Liana E.
AU  - Han,Wen-Jui
AU  - Ruhm,Christopher
AU  - Waldfogel,Jane
TI  - Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17135
PY  - 2011
Y2  - June 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17135
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17135.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Liana E. Fox
Columbia University
School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
E-Mail: lef2118@columbia.edu

Wen-Jui Han
Columbia University
School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
E-Mail: wh41@columbia.edu

Christopher J. Ruhm
Frank Batten School of
Leadership and Public Policy
University of Virginia
235 McCormick Rd.
P.O. Box 400893
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4893
Tel: 434-243-3729
E-Mail: ruhm@virginia.edu

Jane Waldfogel
Columbia University
School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY  10027
E-Mail: jw205@columbia.edu
AB  - Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children’s well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the typical two-parent family but not for those in lone-parent households. Time use data from 1975 and 2003-2008 reveal that working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers in previous cohorts. Analysis of 2004 work schedule data suggests that non-daytime work provides an alternative method of coordinating employment schedules for some dual-earner families.
ER  -