Low-income children spend about 12 fewer minutes per day conversing with adults during summer, marginally significant¶

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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

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q2 i? APSCC estimates show a roughly 12-minute-per-day summer gap in children's conversation with adults between low-income and wealthier households, marginally significant after Bonferroni adjustment. → 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-effect estimates from APSCC children's time diaries on time spent conversing with adults. The article prints the gap as "about 12 fewer minutes per day" and reports only marginal significance; no effect size is printed.

"children in low-income households spend about 12 fewer minutes per day, on average, conversing with parents than their counterparts in wealthier households and this difference remains marginally statistically significant even after making the Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• The number of conversational turns is more closely associated with children's language skills and language-related brain function than the raw number of words heard, regardless of family income or education. — related