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Parent-Child Quality Time: Does Birth Order Matter?
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Price, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2008
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 240-265
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- 1548-8004
- OpenAlex
- W2162002397
- Cited by
- 432
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 47.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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