Replication Data for: Making time to be informed: The child penalty in political news consumption

Women consume less media than men and avoid political news to a greater extent. This gap in media consumption is often linked to women’s lack of time when combining careers with children. One recent study has captured the ‘child penalty’ for women, but the dynamics relating childcare to less news consumption remain unexplored. We propose four potential dynamics: a threshold effect, a short-term effect, an extra burden, and a ‘building-up’ effect. Fixed effects’ analysis of the Dutch LISS panel data shows an immediate ‘child penalty’ on women's political media consumption. There is an additional cumulative effect as infants grow. This ‘building-up effect’ is also apparent for men when children are in their teens. Results suggest a change of habits to online news. Finally, we find no support for the hypothesis of an extra burden dynamic as having a child has the same toll for women with and without paid employment.