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October 2009

The parenting of infants: a time-use study

Robert Drago

Data from the American Time Use Survey show that parents of infants spend far more time on childcare relative to parents of older children; women spend more time engaging in childcare than men, parents obtain time for childcare from various sources, and time use diverges across lines of socioeconomic status

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