Increasing the Human Capital of Children in Latin American Countries: The Role of Parents’ Time in Childcare
利用墨西哥、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔和哥伦比亚的时间使用调查，研究了父母教育水平与教育性育儿时间的关系，发现多数国家中父母教育水平与育儿时间正相关。
In this paper, we focus on the relationship between parents’ education and activities aimed at increasing the human capital of children (for example, educational childcare). Using time use surveys from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia we find that in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia the level of education of both father and mother has a positive association with the time devoted to educational childcare, while in Ecuador only fathers’ level of education has a positive association with father’s time devoted to educational childcare. Furthermore, we find that the time devoted to educational childcare by parents is positively related in all four countries.