Did you do today? Children's use of time, family composition, and the acquisition of social capital
Did you do today? Children's use of time, family composition, and the acquisition of social capital
复制标题
DOI：
10.2307/353474
复制
发表时间：
1997-05-01
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Robinson, J
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Bianchi, SM;Robinson, J
使用从全州范围内收集的加州3-11岁儿童的概率样本中收集的时间日记数据，我们检查了儿童花在四项活动上的时间，这些活动被认为会影响他们的认知和社会发展-阅读或被阅读，看电视，学习和做家务-以及这些时间是如何因四个家庭特征而变化的：父母教育、母亲就业、家庭中父母人数和家庭规模。正如预期的那样，受过高等教育的父母的孩子学习和阅读更多，看电视更少。与预期相反，工作的母亲的孩子看电视的时间明显少于全职母亲的孩子。除此之外，母亲的有偿就业程度、父亲的存在和兄弟姐妹的数量几乎没有显著差异。因此，结果加强了这一论点，即父母的教育是儿童获得的人力和社会资本投资的主要预测因素。
Using time-diary data collected from a statewide probability sample of California children aged 3-11, we examine the amount of time children spend on four activities presumed to affect their cognitive and social development-reading or being read to, watching TV, studying, and doing household chores-and how that rime varies by four family characteristics: parental education, maternal employment, number of parents in the household, and family size. As expected children of highly educated parents study and read more and watch TV less. Contrary to expectations, children of mothers who are employed parr-time watch significantly less TV than children of mothers at home full-time. Otherwise, there are few significant differences by mother's extent of paid employment, the presence of a father, and the number of siblings. Thus, the results reinforce the thesis that parental education is the predominant predictor of the human and social capital investments that children receive.