The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments This study was generously supported by a grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. In addition, we received travel funds from the Bowdoin College Faculty Development Fund, the ATUS Early Results Conference, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Bowdoin also provided funds for research assistants. Finally, both Bowdoin College and Western Michigan University provided resources for administrative support. We would like to thank Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Folbre, Kimberly Fisher, John Fitzgerald, Daniel Hamermesh, Charlene Kalenkoski, Shelly Lundberg, Sabrina Pabilonia, David Ribar, Liana Sayer, Leslie Stratton, Jay Stewart,Anne Witte, Jayong Yoon, and all the participants at seminars at the ATUS Early Results Conference, the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, IZA Topics Week, Brandeis University, and Rhodes College for their constructive comments and suggestions. We also benefited substantially from the comments of three anonymous referees for this manuscript and the anonymous referees for the related journal versions of Chapters 3, 4, and 5. Soon (Steve) Choi, Will Jacobs, Jonathan Rollins, Deweit Senbet, and Fei Tan all worked as research assistants on the project. Many thanks go to them for their efforts and data prowess. Elizabeth Weston carefully matched citations to bibliography and courageously did battle with Word for us. Thanks be to her. Results from the larger research project of which this monograph is a part have also been published in the Journal of Human Resources, the Review of Economics of the Household, and Social Indicator Research. We thank those journals for permission to publish overlapping material. Thanks finally to our kids for enabling us to speak with authority as mothers of children under age 13. Studying how other mothers use their time gives us insight into our own breathless lives. Despite the help of so many, the errors we make in our time allocation choices and in this monograph remain our own. ...