Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35887 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4374
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between the incidence and duration of activities and incorporate the daily time constraint. We find that teens living in disadvantaged households spend less time in non-classroom schooling activities than other teens. Girls spend some of this time in work activities, suggesting they are taking on adult roles. However we find more evidence of substitution into unsupervised activities, suggesting that it may be less structured environments that reduce educational investment.
Subjects: 
Time use
adolescence
event history models
JEL: 
J22
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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