Class Inequality in Parental Childcare Time: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS.

ABSTRACT: The time that parents spend teaching and playing with their young children has important consequences for later life achievement and attainment. Previous research suggests that there are significant class inequalities in how much time parents devote to this kind of developmental childcare in the United States. Yet, due in part to data limitations, prior research has not accounted for how class inequalities in family structure, assortative mating, and specialization between partners may exacerbate or ameliorate these gaps. We match parental respondents within the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to generate synthetic parental dyads, which we use to estimate, in turn, the contributions of family structure, assortative mating, and specialization to class gaps in parental time spent in developm

SUBMITTER: LaBriola J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519415 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature