Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/114042 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9168
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use novel diary surveys coupled with universities' administrative student data for the last three decades to document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK grew significantly during the 1980s and early 1990s, and gradually diminished afterwards. We find that the gap in time investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period, especially in terms of human capital enhancing activities.
Subjects: 
parental time investments
children
college competition
JEL: 
J13
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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