Tobit or not Tobit?

Stewart, Jay

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“…Some argue that Tobit models are more appropriate in these circumstances, assuming a latent propensity to do an activity, and that negative values of this propensity are artificially censored at zero in the measure (see for example Sousa-Poza et al, 2001). Others counter that time spent in an activity cannot take values less than zero, that zero values in the dependent variable reflect actual and natural nonparticipation, and that OLS is therefore preferable to Tobit (see for example (Stewart, 2009). We follow this approach.…”

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Shared parent–child leisure time in four countries

Craig

Mullan

2012

Leisure Studies

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Sharing leisure experiences is thought to promote family bonding and communication, and foster children's intellectual, social and psychological development. Such time is 'purposive', and requires planning, organisation and maintenance, usually from the mother. Do parents and children spend more time in shared leisure together in countries where mothers do more childcare and spend longer each day with children? Using time use data we compare shared parent-child shared leisure time in four countries with different maternal work-force participation and attitudes to substitute childcare and child-raising: USA, Australia, Denmark and France. We create harmonised measures of leisure time mothers are with children, and time both parents are with children engaging in leisure in the same location (except in the USA, which has information from only one parent). To isolate shared interactive activities, time is further subdivided into (a) watching TV, DVDs or videos with children, (b) non-TV leisure time with children and (c) leisure time with children outside the family home. We find that overall time with children varies substantially between countries, reflecting mothers' average time in paid work, but time in shared parent-child leisure, particularly outside the family home, does not.

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Section: Analysis Planmentioning

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Shared parent–child leisure time in four countries

Craig

Mullan

2012

Leisure Studies

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“…Unlike in the case of television watching and socializing with others (where there are very few zeroes – no one doing them), physical activity and meal preparation activities are less commonly reported on the dairy day. Because estimates from two-part models are less biased than estimates from Tobit models (Stewart 2013; Daunfeldt and Hellstrom 2007), we use logit models to estimate diary day participation in physical activity and meal preparation and OLS models to estimate minutes spent in these activities (conditional on participation). Our decision to analyze age and gender subgroups is generally supported by model-level Chow tests showing significant differences in OLS age- and gender-specific models and significant age and gender coefficients in pooled non-linear models (available upon request).…”

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Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

Flood

Moen

2015

J Health Soc Behav

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Social engagement is theorized to promote health, with ages 55 to 75 – what some call “encore” adulthood – potentially a time for ongoing engagement or social isolation. We use the American Time Use Survey (N=11,952) and a life course perspective to examine associations between paid work, resources, relations, and healthy time use for men and women in the first (55–64) and second (65–74) halves of the encore years. Work limits sufficient sleep (full-time working men) and television watching (all workers) but also time spent in physical activity (full-time workers). College-educated and healthy encore adults – across age and gender divides – are more likely to exercise and watch less television. Marriage and caregiving encourage socializing and limit television watching, despite differential effects on physical activity and sleep. These findings fit well with a gendered life course perspective suggesting socially patterned (by work, resources, relationships, gender, age) health behaviors.

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“…For these reasons, OLS is argued to be preferable to Tobit (see for exampleStewart 2009;Brown and Dunn 2011).…”

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Domestic Outsourcing, Housework Shares and Subjective Time Pressure: Gender Differences in the Correlates of Hiring Help

Craig

Baxter

2014

Soc Indic Res

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We use data from matched dual earner couples from the Australian Time Use Survey 2006 (n = 926 couples) to investigate predictors of different forms of domestic outsourcing, and whether using each type of paid help is associated with reduced time in male or female-typed tasks, narrower gender gaps in housework time and/or lower subjective time pressure. Results suggest domestic outsourcing does not substitute for much household time, reduces domestic time for men at least as much as for women, and does not ameliorate gender gaps in domestic labor. The only form of paid help associated with significant change in gender shares of domestic work was gardening and maintenance services, which were associated with women doing a greater share of the household total domestic work. We found no evidence that domestic outsourcing reduced feelings of time pressure. We conclude that domestic outsourcing is not effective in ameliorating time pressures or in changing gender dynamics of unpaid work.Keywords Gender division of labor Á Domestic outsourcing Á Housework shares Á Time pressure As women have entered the workforce in greater numbers, it has become harder for families to find time for domestic labor. In dual-earner households, tasks that used to be performed by housewives must now be fitted around the work schedules of both partners. Scholars have noted that time in housework has gone down, largely as a result of women doing less than in times past (Sayer 2005;Bianchi et al. 2000). Notwithstanding, women

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Tobit or not Tobit?

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Shared parent–child leisure time in four countries

Shared parent–child leisure time in four countries

Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

Domestic Outsourcing, Housework Shares and Subjective Time Pressure: Gender Differences in the Correlates of Hiring Help

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