Fathers' Changing Contributions to Child Care and Domestic Work in Very Low-Fertility Countries: The Effect of Education

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1048-1065

  Sullivan, Oriel ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^a   Altintas, Evrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child care; family; family demography; father child relationship; gender; household labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899982960     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14522241     Document Type: Article

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