Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-Being. Working Paper 31712

Autor/inn/en	Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan; Delgado, William; Gennetian, Lisa A.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Titel	Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-Being. Working Paper 31712
Quelle	(2023) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Mothers; Child Care; Parent Attitudes; Time Management; Well Being + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Mother; Mutter; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Elternverhalten; Zeitmanagement; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden
Abstract	College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate this puzzle by testing the hypothesis that college-educated mothers enjoy childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared to spending time in other activities. However, college-educated mothers experience no more positive feelings and no fewer negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer positive feelings for time spent in management activities and substantially more negative feelings for time spent in educational activities with their child. Findings are robust to controlling for a rich set of covariates, mother fixed effects, and simulations to account for selection into intensive childcare. (As Provided).
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