Changing trends of mothers' active and passive childcare times

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-23

  Moro Egido, Ana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active and passive time; Child care; Time Use; Two step estimation procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857782335     PISSN: 10580476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10834-011-9265-0     Document Type: Article

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