With the goal of shedding more light on the impact of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal relationship between parental involvement and the education outcomes of their children. This study is the first to examine the effect of parental time in terms of engagement in a child’s everyday life. Moreover, I enrich the existing literature by considering the characteristics of children as well as their parents. To estimate causal treatment effects, I use a simple logistic regression along with a subclassification on the propensity score. By subclassification, the systematic differences in baseline characteristics are eliminated. The education outcome is represented by a binary variable denoting whether the respondent completed high school or not. Completing high school increases a person’s economic self-sufficiency and civic engagement. The results indicate a higher probability of graduating from high school with higher parental involvement. This probability decreases when a child disobeys his or her parent. Most importantly, the results suggest that the expected probability of completing high school decreases with stricter parental behaviour.
JEL Codes: I21, J12, J13