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Quinton, Laurent

doi:10.4000/books.pur.49278

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“…Time inequality due to differences in the built environment and neighborhood characteristics are further exacerbated by transportation inequality. Access to an automobile plays an important role in the economic outcomes of low-income household, yet low income and racial minority households are less likely to own a reliable car compared to higher income and white households 37,38,39 . Public transit plays an important role in increasing less advantaged groups' access to goods, services, and jobs, but bus and subway riders have less control over departure, arrival, and travel times and locations, resulting in more time wasted during the day.…”

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It’s About Time: Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting

Holt

Vinopal

2021

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Time spent waiting for services represents unproductive time imposed on individuals trying to fulfill basic needs. While qualitative and ethnographic work has found that income disparities also translate into disparities in time kept waiting for services, little evidence exists to confirm the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time. We use time diary data from the nationally representative American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to estimate the difference between high- and low-income people in time spent waiting for basic services. We find that, relative to high-income people, low-income people are 3 percentage-points more likely to spend time waiting on an average day and their waiting spells are 12 minutes longer on average. The income gap in waiting time cannot be explained by differences in family obligations, demographics, education, work time, or travel time. Further, we find that high-income Black people experience the same higher average wait times as low-income people regardless of race. Our results suggest socioeconomic and racial inequalities in neighborhood quality, work schedule flexibility, and access to services exacerbate inequality in daily quality of life and the availability of productive time.

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