TABLE 6.

EFFECT OF CHILD GENDER ON HOUSEHOLD CHILD CARE TIME, TIME USE SURVEY (1998–1999)

Model:	OLS	OLS	Logit	OLS	Tobit	OLS
Dependent variable:	Number of minutes per day, including 0s	Number of minutes per day, including 0s	Any care? (Beta reported)	Number of minutes per day>0	Number of minutes per day	Urban Households
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Panel A: Youngest kids under 1 year old
Male=1	32.772 [17.669]*	30.018 [17.511]*	0.613 [0.397]	24.226 [17.344]	36.309 [18.855]*	−5.709 [34.546]
Controls?	no	yes	no	no	no	no
Obs	562	562	562	516	562	204
Mean Y	236.62	236.62	0.93	255.51	236.62	265.737
Panel B: Youngest kids under 2 years old
Male=1	18.689 [8.643]**	16.602 [8.593]*	−0.052 [0.182]	21.951 [8.629]**	18.647 [9.509]**	−15.867 [16.173]
Controls?	no	yes	no	no	no	no
Obs	1947	1947	1947	1747	1947	677
Mean Y	196.90	196.90	0.90	219.17	196.90	235.373

Notes: Robust standard errors in brackets. The dependent variable in all columns except (3) is the number of minutes per day spent with child care by all household members. The dependent variable in column (3) is an indicator variable for positive childcare time. Panel A reports results for households whose youngest child is under 1 year old and panel B for those whose youngest is under 2. The controls include dummies for household caste (2 dummies), a dummy for whether the household was Hindu and the area of the land owned and possessed by the household. Survey weights are used in estimation.

^***p<0.01,

^**p<0.05,

^*p<0.1