Publications [#224583] of Marina Gorsuch

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Journal Articles

  1. Gorsuch, Marina Mileo, Decomposing the Increase in Men’s Time on Childcare during the Great Recession, Review of Economics of the Household (Online August 2014) [s11150-014-9263-8]
    (last updated on 2014/09/04)

    Abstract:
    I examine the time men spent on childcare during the recession of 2007-2009. The recession provides a sudden change in the employment opportunities of men relative to women in the United States. Using the American Time Use Survey and the linked Current Population Survey, I show that this lopsided shock to employment opportunities was accompanied by an increase in the average amount of time men spent on childcare. In particular, men’s average time on physical care for children increased during the recession; this is an element of childcare that men perform less than women. I decompose the total change in average time on childcare into behavioral, compositional, and between group change. A behavioral change among employed men accounted for the majority of the total increase in the average time spent on childcare; among men who are out of the labor force, the increase is due to compositional changes.

Marina Gorsuch