How the Allocation of Children’s Time Affects Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
利用澳大利亚儿童纵向研究的时间日志数据，分析儿童在不同活动上的时间分配对认知与非认知技能的影响，发现教育性活动（尤其与父母一起）促进认知发展，而非认知技能受母亲教养方式影响更大。
The allocation of children�s time among different activities may be important for their cognitive and non-cognitive development. In our work we exploit time use diaries from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to study the effect of time allocation across a wide range of alternative activities. By doing so we characterize the trade-off between the activities to which a child is exposed. On the one hand, our results suggest that time spent in educational activities, particularly with parents, is the most productive input for cognitive skill development. On the other hand, non-cognitive skills appear insensitive to alternative time allocations. Instead, these skills are greatly affected by the mother�s parenting style.