The Rug Rat Race

By Garey Ramey, V. Ramey. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor (2011, background): “Studies of parental time use show that highly educated and higher-income parents spend more time in child-care activities with their children than do lesseducated and lower-income children (Guryan, Hurst, and Kearney 2008; Ramey and Ramey 2010).”
The Suffocation of Marriage: Climbing Mount Maslow Without Enough Oxygen (2014, background): “…the amount of time required to meet a child’s basic needs is lower than in previous generations, Americans are spending much more time parenting today than in the past (Aguiar & Hurst, 2007; Bianchi & Milkie, 2010; Dew, 2009; Ramey & Ramey, 2010; Sayer, 2005; Sayer, Bianchi, & Robinson, 2004).”
The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? (2018, positive): “Data for weekly hours spent on childcare are taken from Table 1 of (Ramey and Ramey, 2010).”
Do Summer Time-Use Gaps Vary by Socioeconomic Status? (2013, methodology): “…in the APSCC and arbitrary serial correlation within states over time in the ATUS (Angrist & Pischke, 2009; Wooldridge, 2013).9 Serial correlation would exist within states if, for example, competition for college admissions has increased at differential rates across states (Ramey & Ramey, 2010).”
Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review. (2020, background): “The recognition of the diffusion and deepening of intensive parenting norms, seemingly accelerated by the rise of economic insecurities (Lan, 2018; Nelson, 2010; Ramey & Ramey, 2010), spurred researchers to investigate parental well-being, as mothers and fathers appeared to be under pressure.”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, positive): “Ramey and Ramey (2010) take a closer look at trends in childcare in the U.S and find that the increase in parental time spent on childcare occurred in the mid-1990s and was particularly large for college-educated parents.”
Is Kindergarten the New First Grade? (2016, background): “…in parental investments in their young children’s learning as well as heightened pressure among some parents to give young children an academic “edge” (Bassok, Lee, Reardon, & Waldfogel, 2015; Bassok & Reardon, 2013; Kornrich & Furstenberg, 2013; Otterman, 2009; Ramey & Ramey, 2010; Reardon, 2011).”
Educational Gradients in Parents' Child‐Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012 (2016, background): “Parental engagement is viewed as necessary not only to protect children in anonymous urban environments (Bianchi, 2011) but also to ensure their success in an increasingly competitive economy (Ramey & Ramey, 2009).”
Parental Beliefs About Returns to Educational Investments - The Later the Better? (2015, background): “Moreover, more educated and wealthier parents do not only spend more financial resources on their children, but they also spend more time with their children despite facing a higher opportunity cost in terms of foregone wages (Guryan, Hurst and Kearney 2008, Ramey and Ramey 2010).”