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Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Frazis, Harley; Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...

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Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India

López Bóo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are associated with increases in the time devoted to study...

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The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...

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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...

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Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence

Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey....

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Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

among married couples without young children, those with a greater difference in weekly hours of work between husband and … evidence of a relationship between specialization and couple time together among couples with young children. …

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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters under alternative incentive scenarios, designed to mimic...

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