Could Trends in Time Children Spend with Parents Help Explain the Black-White Gap in Human Capital? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Autor/in	Patterson, Richard W.
Titel	Could Trends in Time Children Spend with Parents Help Explain the Black-White Gap in Human Capital? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 25 (2017) 3, S.219-233 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2016.1235137
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Human Capital; Racial Differences; African Americans; Whites; Achievement Gap; Wages; Mothers; Children; Early Adolescents; Age Differences; Socioeconomic Influences; Time; Individual Characteristics; National Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Humankapital; Rassenunterschied; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Wage; Löhne; Mother; Mutter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Zeit; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	It is widely believed that the time children spend with parents significantly impacts human capital formation. If time varies significantly between black and white children, this may help explain the large racial gap in test scores and wages. In this study, I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine the patterns in the time black and white children receive from mothers at each age between birth and age 14 years. I relate patterns in parenting time to trends in human capital formation observed in the literature. I observe that black children spend significantly less time with their mothers than white children in the first years of life. However, differences in parenting time rapidly decline with age and there are never significant differences in teaching time after socioeconomic variables are controlled. My findings suggest that the black-white human capital gap is unlikely to be driven by differences in teaching time or differences in parenting time after children enter school. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01