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Title: American Dad: Families, Fathers and Childcare Shocks

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Children, particularly when young, require care. Parents often outsource childcare but childcare shocks, such as illness, can return childcare responsibilities back to parents unexpectedly and may cause income loss. Teachers' strikes are an exogenous childcare shock that shift childcare to parents. A teachers' strike-day reduces family income by at least one quarter of a day's income suggesting families are unable to insure perfectly against childcare shocks. For the average and median family, fathers face higher income costs from teachers' strikes than mothers. Finally, fathers and mothers are also more likely to face income costs when sons are affected than daughters.

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Authors: Dunbar, Geoffrey R.

Publisher: Simon Fraser University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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