PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Joseph Price TI - Parent-Child Quality Time AID - 10.3368/jhr.43.1.240 DP - 2008 Jan 01 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 240--265 VI - 43 IP - 1 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/240.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/240.full SO - J Hum Resour2008 Jan 01; 43 AB - Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I find that a first-born child receives 20-30 more minutes of quality time each day with his or her parent than a second-born child of the same age from a similar family. The birth-order difference results from parents giving roughly equal time to each child at any point in time while the amount of parent-child quality time decreases as children get older. These results provide a plausible explanation for recent research showing a very significant effect of birth order on child outcomes.