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Title: Class Inequality in Total Parental Time With Children: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Early childhood is a crucial period for the development of socio-emotional and cognitive skills, and parental investments of time in children have an important influence on that development. However, scholars have documented large and growing disparities in maternal investments of time in children by parental social class. Yet, these existing estimates of class gaps in parenting time do not account for class differences in family structure nor for the homogamy of couples. We apply matching methods to the 2003-2016 American Time Use Survey data to generate synthetic parental dyads and so to more fully characterize class gaps in total parental time with children. We find that accounting for class gaps in partnership status by maternal education leads to greater absolute (though not relative) class gaps in total minutes of parental childcare. However, accounting for homogamy and specialization reveals substantially larger absolute and relative class gaps in total parental childcare.
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Authors: LaBriola, Joe; Schneider, Daniel
Publisher: UC Berkeley
Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Work, Family, and Time
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