Parental time with children is important for children’s developmental outcomes. Family type may affect the amount of time parents can and will invest in children. Using time-use panel data obtained from two waves of the Danish Time Use Survey, linked with administrative records, the study shows that parental family type had a substantial impact on the time parents spent with children. When controlling for constant unobserved individual traits, likely to affect both time-use and family type, differences in time-use increase, indicating positive selection into non-intact family types. Single parents and parents in reconstituted families spent less time on developmental activities, such as talking, reading and playing with the child, whereas parents living in reconstituted families also spent less time on non-developmental activities, such as transporting the child or performing basic childcare. Based on our findings, there are indications that cross-sectional results showing little difference in parents’ involvement in children across family types partly emanate from differential selection in family types.

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家庭类型和父母陪伴孩子的时间：丹麦的纵向证据

父母陪伴孩子的时间对孩子的发展结果很重要。家庭类型可能会影响父母可以并且愿意为孩子投资的时间。该研究使用从丹麦时间使用调查的两轮中获得的时间使用面板数据，并与行政记录相关联，表明父母家庭类型对父母与孩子相处的时间有重大影响。当控制不变的未观察到的个体特征时，可能会影响时间使用和家庭类型，时间使用差异增加，表明积极选择非完整家庭类型。单亲和重组家庭中的父母花在与孩子交谈、阅读和玩耍等发展活动上的时间较少，而重组家庭中的父母花在非发展活动上的时间也较少，例如运送孩子或进行基本的托儿服务。根据我们的研究结果，有迹象表明，横断面结果显示不同家庭类型的父母对孩子的参与几乎没有差异，部分原因是家庭类型的差异选择。