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Title: The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation
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1. Price, Joseph P.
The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation
Working Paper, Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, 2010
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Brigham Young University
Keyword(s): American Time Use Survey (ATUS); Birth Order; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Family Income; Family Resources; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent-Child Interaction; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings; Time Use

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Firstborn children receive more parental time investments, and this difference is larger when children are spaced further apart in age. I use this natural within-family variation to estimate the effect of parental time investments on children’s reading test scores. Having an instrumental variable for parent–child reading is crucial since parents invest more time with the lower-performing child, leading to downward bias of the effects of parental time investments. I find that an extra day per week of parent–child reading during the first ten years of life raises a child’s performance on standardized reading tests by about half of a standard deviation.
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Price, Joseph P. "The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, 2010.