Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time

Lesnard, Laurent

doi:10.1086/590648

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“…This finding has a bearing on urban planning and transportation accessibility, and supports the notion that land-use policies can be used as instruments to address time poverty and social exclusion (inclusion) issues. Third, our results reinforce the results from earlier studies (Bianchi, 2009, Ekert-Jaffe 2011, Deding and Lausten 2011) that individuals, and particularly women, in dual-earner households with children face a substantial work-family conflict situation, suggesting the need to rigorously evaluate and consider the implementation of work-friendly policies such as paid maternity and paternity leave, paid sick days, proportional wages for part-time work, flexible work scheduling, and related government policies (see, for example, Lesnard, 2008 andGoodin, 2010). Policies that promote physical activity and or provide recreational Further, analysts would do well to consider different household segment groups such as dual earner households with children, rather than estimating models by pooling all households.…”

Section: Magnitude Effects Of Variablessupporting

confidence: 71%

An empirical investigation into the time-use and activity patterns of dual-earner couples with and without young children

Bernardo

Paleti

Hoklas

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Section: Magnitude Effects Of Variablessupporting

confidence: 71%

An empirical investigation into the time-use and activity patterns of dual-earner couples with and without young children

Bernardo

Paleti

Hoklas

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…A large portion of my research using OMA focuses on time use surveys (Lesnard 2008;Lesnard 2009;Lesnard 2010;Lesnard and Kan 2011). These surveys feature a time diary in which respondents must describe activities over one or several days.…”

Section: Optimal Matching Methods and Social Theory Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…where the point of using OMA is to identify different types of distributions of work hours, the warping that any insertion or deletion introduces into the subject of study itself is particularly problematic (Lesnard 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Using Optimal Matching Analysis in Sociology: Cost Setting and Sociology of Time

Lesnard

2014

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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Résumé : Ce texte est une réflexion sur les conditions sous lesquelles les méthodes d'appariement optimal (Optimal Matching Analysis, OMA) peuvent être utilisées en sociologie. Le succès de ces méthodes en biologie ne tient pas à une compatibilité particulière avec des processus biologiques mais plutôt à la manière dont des hypothèses théoriques en biologie sont mobilisées pour déterminer les coûts relatifs à ces méthodes d'appariement. Étant donné que les séquences en sociologie sont le plus souvent composées d'événements et de temps, la détermination des coûts dans les OMA appliqués en sociologie devrait être guidée par des éléments théoriques en sociologie du temps. Après une discussion de la signification et des conséquences des coûts en OMA, ce texte revient sur des éléments théoriques émanant de la sociologie du temps (Durkheim, Elias et Bourdieu) et montre comment on peut les intégrer dans une variante des méthodes d'appariement optimal appelée Dynamic Hamming. À ce titre, ce texte illustre comment la théorie sociologique peut aider à la détermination des coûts lorsque les méthodes d'appariement optimal sont utilisées en sociologie. Abstract:This paper is a reflection on the conditions required to use Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA) in sociology. The success of OMA in biology is not related to any supposed similarity of the method with biological processes but comes from setting costs in OMA in accordance with biological theory. As sequences in sociology are made of events and time, the determination of costs should be guided by sociological theories of time. After a discussion of the sociological meaning and consequences of costs, this paper comes back on the Dynamic Hamming Distance and the body of social theories of time (Durkheim, Elias, Bourdieu) from which it is derived as an example of how sociological theory can inform cost setting in using OMA in sociology.Readers wishing to cite this document are asked to use the following form of words:

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“…They have since been applied in the social sciences, where they have been used to analyse life trajectories, career paths, and school to work transitions (cf. Abbott and Forrest 1986;Halpin and Chan 1998;Abbott and Tsay 2000;McVicar and Anyadike-Danes 2002), and, in a small number of studies, to analyse time diaries (Lesnard 2004;2008;2010;Vrotsou, Ynnerman, and Cooper 2014).…”

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Sequencing the real time of the elderly: Evidence from South Africa

Grapsa¹,

Posel²

2016

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDUnderstanding how the elderly in developing countries spend their time has received little attention. Moreover, the potential of time use data to discern variation in activity patterns has not been fully realized by methods which use a mean added time approach. OBJECTIVESTo uncover patterns of time use among the elderly (60 years and older) in South Africa by applying an innovative methodology that incorporates the timing, duration, and frequency of activities in the analysis. METHODSWe use sequence analysis, which treats the daily series of activities of each individual as a sequence, and cluster analysis, to group these sequences into common clusters of time use behaviour. We then estimate multinomial logit regressions to identify the characteristics of the elderly which predict cluster membership. RESULTSWe find that the time use behaviour of the elderly in South Africa can be divided into five distinct clusters, according to the relative importance in their day of personal care, household maintenance, work, mass media, and social or cultural activities. In comparison to men, women are overrepresented in the cluster where household work dominates, while they are underrepresented in the cluster of the elderly who engage in production work. A range of other individual and household characteristics are also important in predicting cluster membership.

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Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time

Cited by 148 publications

References 42 publications

An empirical investigation into the time-use and activity patterns of dual-earner couples with and without young children

An empirical investigation into the time-use and activity patterns of dual-earner couples with and without young children

Using Optimal Matching Analysis in Sociology: Cost Setting and Sociology of Time

Sequencing the real time of the elderly: Evidence from South Africa

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