No statistically significant summer gap in children's reading time by parental education in the APSCC¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The estimated ten-minute summer reading gap between children of college-educated parents and parents who did not complete high school is not statistically significant. → Gershenson 2013

Evidence¶

Gershenson 2013¶

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

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Tobit interaction estimates from APSCC book-reading time. The article reports the estimate as imprecise, possibly due to the small APSCC sample; no effect size is printed, so equivalence was not tested.

"column 5 shows a ten minute summer gap in reading between children of college-educated parents and parents who failed to complete high school, though again this difference is not statistically significant"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Low-income children spend about 12 fewer minutes per day conversing with adults during summer, marginally significant — related
• Summer-SES time-use gaps are larger among children of married parents, suggesting results are not driven by single-parent households — related
• The parental summer education gap is largely college-educated parents spending more time facilitating children's summer activities — related
• Low-income children's test scores drop relative to higher-income peers during the summer months — related