Table 3.
Regression results for read to child, organized activities, and hours of child screen time.
| Variables | Parent reads to child
|
Organized activities
|
Screen time
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ages 3–9
|
Ages 6–17
|
Ages 3–17
|
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| Logistic, clustered SE
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Logistic, clustered SE
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OLS, clustered SE
|
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| Coef | SE | Coef | SE | Coef | SE | |
| Homeownership | −0.966*** | (0.327) | 0.682*** | (0.238) | −2.856*** | (0.912) |
| Boy | 0.0304 | (0.206) | −0.0187 | (0.199) | 0.535 | (0.562) |
| Child age | −0.193*** | (0.0544) | 0.0982*** | (0.0343) | 0.179* | (0.102) |
| Own checking account | 0.165 | (0.421) | −0.513 | (0.356) | 0.972 | (1.141) |
| Own credit card | 0.125 | (0.273) | 0.0377 | (0.241) | 0.301 | (0.696) |
| Own savings account | −0.295 | (0.266) | 0.508** | (0.207) | 0.0401 | (0.690) |
| Hours other cares for child | −0.0180** | (0.00883) | −0.000741 | (0.00833) | 0.0737** | (0.0322) |
| Employed | 0.288 | (0.342) | −0.243 | (0.282) | −0.0509 | (1.004) |
| Visit/call from collection | −0.0119 | (0.251) | 0.0696 | (0.202) | 0.0467 | (0.829) |
| Ever bankrupt | −0.0310 | (0.477) | 0.537 | (0.663) | 4.149* | (2.375) |
| Took a payday loan | −0.893** | (0.427) | 0.286 | (0.356) | 1.104 | (1.433) |
| Single parent household | −0.366 | (0.379) | −0.520* | (0.309) | −0.355 | (0.808) |
| Male | 0.0967 | (0.242) | 0.0533 | (0.232) | 0.935 | (0.723) |
| Age | 0.0385** | (0.0191) | −0.0146 | (0.0137) | 0.0146 | (0.0509) |
| Race/ethnicity (White) | ||||||
| Black | −0.590** | (0.279) | −0.425* | (0.244) | −0.877 | (1.023) |
| Hispanic | −0.676** | (0.312) | −1.007*** | (0.302) | −2.133*** | (0.785) |
| Other race | −0.655 | (0.602) | −0.365 | (0.564) | −0.665 | (1.820) |
| Education (Less than HS) | ||||||
| HS graduate | −0.501 | (0.441) | 0.787** | (0.314) | 1.207 | (1.221) |
| Some college | −0.549 | (0.469) | 0.955*** | (0.321) | 1.254 | (1.153) |
| College Grad or more | 0.296 | (0.465) | 1.356*** | (0.385) | 2.534* | (1.444) |
| Household composition | ||||||
| Number of adults | −0.421 | (0.265) | 0.0312 | (0.163) | −0.203 | (0.555) |
| Number of children | −0.185* | (0.112) | −0.190** | (0.0939) | −0.420 | (0.325) |
| Decile of income | 0.0658 | (0.0475) | 0.0343 | (0.0536) | 0.0268 | (0.146) |
| Constant | 2.395** | (1.159) | −0.112 | (0.795) | 9.209*** | (2.417) |
| Observations | 483 | 613 | 846 | |||
***
p<0.01,
**
p<0.05,
*
p<0.1.