Developing an integrated scobit-based activity participation and time allocation model to explore influence of childcare on women’s time use behaviour

Zhang, Junyi; Xu, Lili; Fujiwara, Akimasa

doi:10.1007/s11116-011-9321-5

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“…Meloni et al (2009) demonstrated that women who have longer work trips devote less time to participating in out-of-home recreation and leisure. As an alternative, Zhang et al (2012) focused on the in ‡uence of child-care on the time allocation of women. Commute time, however, was included in market work time.…”

Section: Transportation Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature has also tended to focus on corner solutions, that is, the decision to participate in an activity. For example, Kitamura et al (1996) and Meloni et al (2009) developed a model where single households choose which activities to participate in and how much time to allocate among various activities, while Srinivasan and Bhat (2005) and Zhang et al (2005Zhang et al ( , 2009Zhang et al ( , 2012 extended the model to encompass decisions jointly made by multiple persons incorporating intra-household interaction. Generally, a speci…c form of utility function is assumed, because it provides a speci…c form to be estimated, with modi…ed probit, logit, and Tobit models formulated using their theoretical model.…”

Section: Transportation Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the number of females employed as full-time workers in traditionally male-dominated positions earning higher wages has continued to increase. Indeed the growing involvement of women in the paid labour force has raised signi…cant questions about transportation (Zhang et al 2012). To stimulate research on this issue, four conferences on women's issues in transportation were held by the Transportation Research Board in 1978, 2004.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The backward-bending commute times of married women with household responsibility

Iwata

Tamada

2013

Transportation

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The purpose of this paper is to examine theoretically and empirically whether the commute times of married women follow a backward-bending pattern with respect to wage rates. The existing literature has shown that married women tend to choose short commutes because of their relatively low wages combined with comparatively heavy household responsibilities. However, a work-leisure model, which includes the simultaneous decision wives take regarding commute times and wage rates, suggests that married women employed in highly paid positions also undertake short commutes, while married women with wage rates in the middle range choose long commutes. These results suggest that the commute times of married women display a backward-bending pattern. Applying an instrumental variable strategy that accounts for the endogeneity of wage rates, the empirical results for employed married women in Japan appear to support this …nding. Moreover, one of our results suggests that highly paid married women can still secure greater leisure time with short commutes, despite retaining a heavy load of domestic responsibilities.

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Section: Transportation Approachmentioning

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Section: Transportation Approachmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The backward-bending commute times of married women with household responsibility

Iwata

Tamada

2013

Transportation

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“…In particular, we will create multinomial generalizations of the binary clog-log model 9 (Yates, 1955) and the binary scobit model (Nagler, 1994). These two models are chosen, in part, because the clog-log model is one of the oldest and most well-known asymmetric discrete choice models (Fisher, 1922;Yates, 1955;McCullagh and Nelder, 1989) and because the scobit model has been used in multiple disciplines such as political science (Nagler, 1994), transportation (Zhang and Timmermans, 2010;Zhang et al, 2011;Wu et al, 2012), and finance (Golet ¸, 2014).…”

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Asymmetric, closed-form, finite-parameter models of multinomial choice

Brathwaite

Walker

2018

Journal of Choice Modelling

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Class imbalance, where there are great differences between the number of observations associated with particular discrete outcomes, is common within transportation and other fields. In the statistics literature, one explanation for class imbalance that has been hypothesized is an asymmetric (rather than the typically symmetric) choice probability function. Unfortunately, few relatively simple models exist for testing this hypothesis in transportation settings-settings that are inherently multinomial. Our paper fills this gap.In particular, we address the following questions: "how can one construct asymmetric, closed-form, finite-parameter models of multinomial choice" and "how do such models compare against commonly used symmetric models?" Methodologically, we introduce (1) a new class of closed-form, finite-parameter, multinomial choice models, (2) a procedure for using these models to extend existing binary choice models to the multinomial setting, and (3) a procedure for creating new binary choice models (both symmetric and asymmetric). Together, our contributions allow us to create new asymmetric, closed-form, finite-parameter multinomial choice models. We demonstrate our methods by developing four new asymmetric, multinomial choice models. Empirically, most of our models strongly dominate the multinomial logit (MNL) model in terms of in-sample and out-of-sample log-likelihoods. Moreover, analyzing two policy applications, we find practical differences between the MNL and our new asymmetric models. Our results suggest that while asymmetric models may not always outperform symmetric ones, asymmetric choice models are worth testing because they might have better statistical performance and entail substantively different policy and financial implications when compared with traditional symmetric models, such as the MNL. 4 The probability equation of open-form models contain analytically intractable integrals or infinite sums. 5 Models with an infinite number of parameters are known as non-parametric or semi-parametric models.

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“…Much research in this area has focused on time use and role allocation pertaining to childcare and housework activities between husband and wife. For instance, Zhang et al [21] analyzed these interactions by developing econometric models through national data on time use. Others have concentrated on attitudes toward and awareness of child rearing.…”

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Mitigating barriers against accessible cities and transportation, for child-rearing households

Ohmori

2015

IATSS Research

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This paper discusses the types of cities and transportation environments required for increasing quality of life of child-rearing households in Japan. The author proposes a classification of barriers that child-rearing parents face in their daily lives. An international comparative study shows that the behavior of and public attitudes toward stroller users in Japan are very different from those in other countries. In addition to providing accessible environments in cities and transportation systems, improving the quantity and quality of childcare services and information, and alleviating the scheduling constraints that come along with rearing children, it is also essential to raise public awareness of child rearing and travelers with children, a development that could help increase the birth rate in Japan.

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Developing an integrated scobit-based activity participation and time allocation model to explore influence of childcare on women’s time use behaviour

Abstract: Childcare, Women, Activity participation, Scobit model, Time allocation, Japan,

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

The backward-bending commute times of married women with household responsibility

The backward-bending commute times of married women with household responsibility

Asymmetric, closed-form, finite-parameter models of multinomial choice

Mitigating barriers against accessible cities and transportation, for child-rearing households

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