The parental summer education gap is largely college-educated parents spending more time facilitating children's summer activities¶

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Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2018: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Decomposing ATUS childcare shows the summer parental-education gap is largely driven by college-educated parents spending more time facilitating children's activities, with an emerging income-based gap of 3 to 5 minutes in physical care and facilitation. → Gershenson 2013

Evidence¶

Gershenson 2013¶

Gershenson, S. (2013). Do summer time-use gaps vary by socioeconomic status? American University. http://www.bls.gov/tus/

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ATUS by-activity Tobit decompositions of childcare into physical care, facilitation of activities, and parent-child interactions. The article also reports "an income-based summer time-use gap of 3 to 5 minutes in physical care and the facilitation of activities".

"Adding summer-SES interactions to the three models in columns 4-6 of table 5 shows that the gap in parents’ summer time-use by educational attainment observed in table 4 is largely the product of college-educated parents spending more time facilitating children’s summer activities."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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