Präsentiert bei: Time use across the lifecourse, 2018, Maryland Population Research Center, College Park, MD, USA

Like their parents, children are parts of their households, contribute to home production and, thus, are supposed to impact parental time binds and work-life balance. In this paper, I am the first to examine trends in children’s time use for housework in Germany. Using data from the three waves of the German Time Use Study (1991/1992, 2001/2002, and 2002/2003), I analyze 12–16 year old boys’ and girls’ participation in and time use for housework activities over a period of 20 years. In addition, I study the association between parental and children’s housework time and its development over time. Preliminary empirical results are: (1) decreasing participation in housework of both boys and girls between 1991 and 2013 but stable time budgets over the years for those children who participate in housework activities; and (2) positive associations between fathers’ and boys’ as well as mothers’ and girls’ time use for housework.