Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-Use Data

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Almudena Sevilla ()

Journal of Human Resources, 2014, vol. 49, issue 3

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Low-skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-use Data (2013)
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