Do Summer Time-Use Gaps Vary by Socioeconomic Status?
By S. Gershenson. 2013
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Several scholars have suggested that differential rates of summer learning loss contribute to the persistence of achievement gaps between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds. To better understand the possible determinants of summer learning loss, a test for summer-specific differences by socioeconomic status (SES) in children’s time spent in activities related to cognitive development and parental time spent interacting with children is conducted using data from two time-diary surveys: the Activity Pattern Survey of California Children and the American Time Use Study. Tobit-model estimates provide evidence of statistically and practically significant summer-SES time-use gaps, most notably in children’s television viewing.
Subfields: Education
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Citations in the corpus
- The relationship between parental literacy involvement, socio-economic status and reading literacy (2017, background): “Scholars have also shown that parental involvement at home is unequally distributed by SES (Grolnick et al. 1997; Bradley & Corwyn 2002; Arnold and Doctoroff 2003; Guryan, Hurst, and Kearney 2008; Gershenson 2013; Buckingham, Beaman, and Wheldall 2014).”
- Understanding differences between summer vs. school obesogenic behaviors of children: the structured days hypothesis (2017, unknown): “Studies report children have higher screen time during summer compared to school [18, 20], have less favorable diets or similar dietary intake during summer compared to school [13, 19], and sleep either the same amount [18] or slightly less [21] during summer compared to school.”
- Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “In the United States, the gap between high and low SES students widen during summer breaks, exactly when schools are out of session (e.g., Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2001; Gershenson, 2013; Kim & Quinn, 2013).”