PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina AU - Sevilla, Almudena TI - Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States AID - 10.3368/jhr.49.3.509 DP - 2014 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 509--539 VI - 49 IP - 3 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/3/509.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/3/509.full SO - J Hum Resour2014 Jul 01; 49 AB - This paper uses several decades of U.S. time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial childcare, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to substantial reductions in the time allocated to basic childcare by college-educated mothers of nonschoolaged children. However, these mothers have not reduced the time allocated to more stimulating educational and recreational activities with their children. Understanding the factors driving parental-time investments on children is crucial from a child-development perspective.