This study examined allocation of adolescents’ free time differs depending on financial and spatial availability by exploiting the exogenous change on the school day. Using Korea Time Use Survey data, I found that adolescents allocate free time created by Saturday without school to mainly leisure activities. I also found that adolescents’ private education and social activity time are not affected by parents’ income, but adolescents living in big (small-medium) cities spend more time on private education, social and cultural activities (screen-based activities). These results suggest that the determinants of adolescents’ free time allocation differ from those of their time use patterns, and reducing the education environment heterogeneity by region is important in bridging adolescents’ inequality of educational opportunity.

Subject classification codes: I24, I28, J13, J22

这项研究通过利用上学日的外生变化来研究青少年空闲时间的分配，具体取决于财务和空间的可用性。使用韩国时间使用情况调查数据，我发现青少年将星期六（星期六）在学校期间创造的空闲时间分配给了主要的休闲活动。我还发现，青少年的私人教育和社交活动时间不受父母收入的影响，但是生活在大中小城市的青少年在私人教育，社交和文化活动（基于屏幕的活动）上花费了更多的时间。这些结果表明，青少年自由时间分配的决定因素与其时间使用方式的决定因素不同，减少地区教育环境的异质性对于弥合青少年教育机会的不平等现象具有重要意义。

主题分类代码： I24，I28，J13，J22