TY - JOUR T1 - Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 509 LP - 539 DO - 10.3368/jhr.49.3.509 VL - 49 IS - 3 AU - Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes AU - Almudena Sevilla Y1 - 2014/07/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/3/509.abstract N2 - 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. ER -