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European Sociological Review Advance Access published online on November 23, 2009
European Sociological Review, doi:10.1093/esr/jcp054
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Family Investments in Children—Productivities, Preferences, and Parental Child Care

Jens Bonke and Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Correspondence: Gøsta Esping-Andersen (to whom correspondence should be addressed), CPIS, Universitat Pompeau Fabra, C/ Ramon Trias Fargas 27. 08005 Barcelona, Spain. Email: gosta.esping{at}upf.edu

Correspondence: Jens Bonke, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Copenhagen, Sejrøgade 11, DK-2100, Denmark. Email: jb{at}rff.dk

We study the interplay of preferences and market productivities on parenting, and show that preferences, when identified, provide a better explanation of caring decisions than has, so far, been demonstrated in the literature. We qualify the standard finding that parental education is a key determinant of care by showing important interaction effects with marital homogamy. We find that homogamy has opposite effects on child care and couple specialization for high and low educated parents. Identification has been made possible by a unique couple-based time diary study for Denmark.

Manuscript received: July 1, 2009.


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