This article was originally published in 2018.
The Life Course Centre is proud to report that the LCC Working Paper Series has published its 100th paper. The Working Paper Series is a wonderful resource and example of the high quality work produced by many great researchers in Australia and around the world. The Life Course Centre is grateful to Dr Francisco Perales and his assistant Ella Kuskoff for their efforts in making the Working Paper Series so successful.
The 100th Working Paper is by Tomás Cano, a PhD candidate from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. Tomás visited the Life Course Centre’s Long Pocket Campus last year as part of his PhD where he worked closely with Dr Francisco Perales and Professor Janeen Baxter. His Working Paper, ‘Father’s Involvement in Childcare Before and During the Great Recession’, explores the way fathers spent time with their children in 2002-2003 (before the recession) and 2009-2010 (after the recession) using Spanish time-use data. Tomás finds that the Great Recession did have impacts upon the time fathers spent with their children, seeing a reduction in the gap between mothers and fathers. However, this did not extend to all parent-child activities, and the magnitude of difference varied according to fathers’ skill levels.
You can find his paper, here.
A huge thank you to all authors who have contributed and to those who will have papers published in the future! Here’s to the next 100!