The rug rat race.

Autor/inn/en	Ramey, Garey; Ramey, Valerie A.
Titel	The rug rat race. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Konkurrenzkampf von klein auf.
Quelle	In: Brookings papers on economic activity, (2010) Spring, S. 129-176 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-2303; 1533-4465
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Mutter; Vater; Kind; Kinderbetreuung; Schullaufbahn; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit; Hochschulzugang; Akademiker; Internationaler Vergleich; Zeitbudget; Auswirkung; Zeitverwendung; Hochschulabsolvent; Hoch Qualifizierter; Kanada; USA
Abstract	"After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the United States began to rise dramatically in the mid1990s. This increase was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Less educated mothers increased their childcare time by over 4 hours per week, and college-educated mothers increased theirs by over 9 hours per week. Fathers showed the same patterns, but with smaller magnitudes. Why would highly educated parents increase the time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their returns from paid employment have skyrocketed? Finding no empirical support for standard explanations, such as selection or income effects, we argue instead that increased competition for college admissions may be an important factor. We provide empirical support for our explanation with a comparison of trends between the United States and Canada, across ethnic groups in the United States, and across U.S. states." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt; Befragung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1965 bis 2008. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2