RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Parent-Child Quality Time
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 240
OP 265
DO 10.3368/jhr.43.1.240
VO 43
IS 1
A1 Price, Joseph
YR 2008
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/240.abstract
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.