Estimating Parental Demand for Children’s Screen Time in a Model of Family Labor Supply

In a novel approach to model the demand for children's screen time as result of parent's optimal labor-leisure choice, study used simple parental utility maximization subject money and budget constraints derive Marshallian functions two types child upbringing activities: time-intensive (violin lesson) time-saving (video games). After Slutsky decomposition, was shown be similar Giffen good. Using National Longitudinal Survey Youth 1979 Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data, wage equation first estimated based on Heckman’s two-step correction procedure. Then, total effect an increase in rate empirically decomposed into substitution income effect. The findings indicate that is positive, negative, negative dominates We add existing literature by showing empirical public health psychology can reconciled with theoretical predictions standard economic trade-off paradigm.