IATUR 2007 - List of Sessions and Papers
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PLENARY ONE: SOCIETAL TRENDS 1960s-2005
Session Chair : John Robinson
Discussant : Kimberly Fisher
Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time in the U.S.
Mark Aguiar (U. of Rochester) and Erik Hurst (U. of Chicago)
Long-Term Trends of Time Allocation in the US: Leisure/Work
John Robinson (U. of Maryland) and Kimberly Fisher (ISER/Oxford)
Multi-National Long-Term Societal Trends in Time Use
Jonathan Gershuny (ISER)
SESSIONS ONE
1.1 COMMUNICATION MEDIA
Session Chair : Ronald Anderson
Time, Technology and Social Change: Diffusion of ICT and Historical Changes in Timing of Daily
Activities
Boris Kragelj (University of Ljubljana)
Various Aspects of Increasing Use of the Internet in Japan
Sachiko Nakano (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
A Double-Hurdle Model of Computer and Internet Use In American Households
Tadesse Wodajo (Western Michigan University)
A Time Use Analysis of Work, Play, and Other Activities to Assess the Role of ICT in Promoting
Sustainable Mobility Patterns
Xin Ye, Karthik Konduri and Ram Pendyala (Arizona State)
1.2 WORK, HOMEWORK AND LEISURE
Session Chair : Christine Bachrach
Does Working While in High School Crowd Out Study Time?
Charlene Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and
Sabrina Pabilonia (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
The “homework problem? Time use evidence
Jiri Zuzanek and roger Mannell (University of Waterloo)
American Children’s Work versus Play in Middle Childhood, 1997 to 2003
Sandra Hofferth (University of Maryland)
Time Devoted to Studying by Brazilian Youth According to Social Class
Marie Jane Carvalho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
1.3 HOUSEHOLD BARGAINING AND INTRA-HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF TIME
Session Chair : Melissa Milkie
Modeling Household Time Allocation Behavioral: Comparative Analysis Using
Large-Scale Data from Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities in Japan
Junyi Zhang, Masaru Osedo and Akimasa Fujiwara (Hiroshima U.)
The Intra-Household Allocation of Work and Leisure in South Africa
Martin Wittenberg (University of Cape Town)
Total Work Time and its Allocation in Households: Evidence from Four European Countries
Hannu Paakkonen (Statistics Finland)
Race, Relative Resources and Parents Division of Familial Labor
Margaret Usdansky (Syracuse University)
1.4 DIFFERENCES IN WORKING TIME ACROSS GROUPS
Session Chair : Harkey Frazis
Work, Rest, and Play: Exploring Trends in Market Work, Non-Market Work, and Leisure in Canada and
the U.S., 1986-2005
Adian McFarlane (University of Manitoba)
Explaining Hours of Paid Work
Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel and Carla Russell
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Fathers' Employment in a Father-Friendly Welfare State: Does Fatherhood Affect Men's Working Hours?
Lars Dommermuth, Ragni Hege Kitterad and Erik Nymoen
(Statistics Norway)
Caring for Children and Time-Budget Constraints: The
Role of Women's Professional Activity
Olivia Ekert-Jaffe (INED-France)
SESSIONS TWO
2.1 TIME USE TRADEOFFS
Session Chair : Klas Rydenstam
Time Spent for Education, A Key Resource in the Social and Economic Development
Georgeta-Marinela Istrate and Nicoleta Hrehorciuc-Caragea
(National Institute of Statistics, Romania)
Working Hard and Hardly Studying? College Students Time at Work, Studying and Well Being
Lonnie Golden and John Baffoe-Bonnie (Penn State University, Abington)
The Religious Time Bind: Effects of Long Hours on Religious Practices and Participation
David Cotter and Younghwan Song (Union College)
Time Use Between Work and Other Activities by Industry and Occupation in the United States
Guang Chen and Aaron Maitland (University of Maryland)
2.2 CAREGIVER TIME INVESTMENTS IN CHILDREN
Session Chair : Jiri Zuzanek
Parental Investments in Children : How Education Homogamy and Bargaining Affect Time Allocation
Jens Bonke and Gosta Esping-Andersen
(The Institute of Social Research)
Mothers' Time with Children and the Social Reproduction of Cognitive Skills
Amy Hsin (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Work That's Done So Infants Can Play
Mark Ellwood (Pace Productivity Inc.)
Marriage, Cohabitation and Parents Childcare Time in the U.S. and Sweden
Rosemary Yeilding and Hiromi Ono (Washington State)
2.3 COUPLES' TIME USE
Session Chair : Suzanne Bianchi
Changes in Marital Status and the Time Spent on Housework
Florian Schulz and Annika Jabsen
(State Institute for Family Research)
Spending Time Together: Changes in Joint Activities of Couples over Four Decades
Marieke Voorpostel and Jonathan Gershuny
(Oxford University)
Institutional Settings, Power, and Time Use by Couples: A Cross-National Comparison
Nabanita Datta Gupta (University of Aarhus) and
Leslie Stratton (Virginia Commonwealth University)
On Women’s Career Opportunities: Where in Europe Are the Best Chances to Find a Husband Sharing the
Burden of the Unpaid Work?
Klas Rydenstam and Odd Vaage (Statistics Sweden)
2.4 MEASURING TIME SPENT IN PAID WORK
Session Chair : Hannu Paakkonen
Time Spent on Paid Work in India
Indira Hirway (Centre for Development Alternatives)
Workweek Estimates: Diary Differences and Regression to the Mean
Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford), John Robinson
and Steven Martin (University of Maryland) and
Kimberly Fisher (University of Oxford)
The Scheduling of Work over the Week
Laurent Lesnard (Observatoire Sociologique du Changement) and
Thibaut de Saint Pol (CREST & INSEE)
PLENARY TWO : TIME USE IN EVERYDAY LIFE : INSIGHTS FROM THE SLOAN STUDIES
Session Chair : Kathleen Christensen
Social Organization of Time in Everyday Family Life
Elinor Ochs (Sloan Foundation)
Making Time for Family
Bradd Shore (Sloan Foundation)
Studying Time Use with Large and Small Family Samples
Barbara Schneider (Sloan Foundation)
SESSIONS THREE
3.1 NEW APPROACHES TO ANALYZING TIME USE
Session Chair : Frank Stafford
Using Optimal Matching in Stata and SAS to Analyze the Timing of Daily Life
Laurent Lesnard (CNRS-France)
Exploring Time Diaries Using Semi-Automated Activity Pattern Extraction - Analyzing Work in Context
Kajsa Ellegrd and Katerina Vrotsou (Linkoping University)
and Mathew Cooper (University of Southern California)
Experiments with Activity Pattern Classification by Means of Sequence Alignment
Clarke Wilson (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.)
Lessons from Buenos Aires Time Use Survey A Methodological Assessment
Valeria Esquivel (University Nacional de General Sarmiento)
3.2 CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDREN'S TIME USE
Session Chair : Jeffery Evans
Transitioning to Achievement Oriented Activities among Children of Parents in Unions
Hiromi Ono and Shushanik Makaryan (Washington State)
Relationship Between Family Background, Teens?Time Use, Academic Performance and Well-Being
Jiri Zuzuanek and Margo Hilbrecht (University of Waterloo)
Time Use, Participation in Daily Occupations and Well-Being of Adolescents in Contemporary Ireland -
A Pilot Study
Eithne Hunt, Susan Ryan and Ivan Perry
(University College Cork)
Time Well Spent?Relating Television Use to Children's Free - Time Activities
N. Anders Klevmarken (Uppsala University)
3.3 GENDER DIFFERENCES
Session Chair : Sabrina Pabilonia
Gender, Social Class, and the Stratification of Time
Sanjiv Gupta (University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
Liana Sayer (Ohio State University) and
Philip Cohen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Does Gender Matter? Single Parents and Time Use
Emily Passias (Ohio State University)
Policy Perspectives for the Future Division of
Professional and Family Labour: The Combination
Model as the Basis for an Integrated Policy in
Democratic Welfare
Walter Van Dongen
(Research Centre of Flemish Government)
Accounting for the Gender Gap and Convergence in
Household Work: Evidence from Canadian Time Use Surveys
Mobinul Huq (University of Saskatchewan)
3.4 TIME PRESSURE /TIME POVERTY
Session Chair : Dan Clawson
Time Poverty Thresholds
Charlene Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and
Karen Hamrick (Economic Research Service, USDA)
The Difference in Time Pressure Between Husbands and Wives in Japan
Michinori Hirata (Hiroshima University)
The Cell Phone, Perpetual Contact and Time Pressure
Michael Bittman and Jude Brown
(University of New England)
Beyond the Extremes: The Pace of Life and Media Use
Michael Jackel and Sabine Wollscheid (University of Trier)
SESSIONS FOUR
4.1 ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF TIME USE
Session Chair : Laurent Lesnard
Data Imputation Based on a Markov Chain Regression Model
Jianxin Shi (Stanford University)
Recording Activities with TrueTales: A Hybrid Calendar-Question List-Approach for Computerized
Collection of Biographical and Time Use Data
Maike Reimer, Britta Matthes and Ralf Kanster (IHF)
The Analysis of Time-Space Interaction as a Subjective
Measure of Time-Use: A Case Study in Ankara, Turkey
Feyzan Erkip and Guliz Mugan (Bilkent University)
An Observational Method for Time Use Research:
Advantages, Disadvantages, and Lessons Learned from
the Middletown Media Studies
Michael Holmes and Mike Bloxham (Ball State University)
4.2 FAMILY AND CHILD TIME
Session Chair : Ignace Gloreux
The Influence of Parental Employment on How 4 to 5 year Old Children Spend Their Day
Jude Brown (University of New England)
Time Use in the Transition to Adulthood: Cross-National Comparisons
Eva Osterbacka (Abo Akademi University) and
Cathleen Zick (University of Utah)
How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?
Charlene Kalenkoski (Ohio University),
David Ribar (UNC - Chapel Hill) and
Leslie Stratton (Virginia Commonwealth University)
4.3 TIME USE AND HEALTH
Session Chair : Michael Bittman
Disease Progression and Leisure Time Availability for the Household Members of Italian AIDS Patients
David Bishai (Johns Hopkins University) and
Andrea Tramarin (Ospedale Civile di Vicenza)
Sleep: Erosion or Compression in the Computer Age?
William Michelson (University of Toronto)
Trends in American Sleep Patterns: 1965-2005
John Robinson and Steven Martin (University of Maryland)
Influence of Time-Use Decisions on Physical Activity Patterns
Gulsah Akar and Kelly Clifton (University of Maryland) and Sean Doherty (University of Toronto)
Time Preference and Time Use: Do Smokers Exercise Less?
Younghwan Song (Union College)
4.4 TIME USE AMONG OLDER ADULTS
Session Chair : John Haaga
Cross-National Variation in Older Adults Time Use
Patterns
Liana Sayer (Ohio State University),
Janet Gornick (University of Maryland),
Timothy Smeeding (Syracuse University) and
Gary Burtless (Brookings Institute)
Household Production and Consumption Around
Retirement: Evidence from Time-Use Data
Jennifer Ward-Batts (Claremont McKenna College)
Fractional-Split Models of the Time-Use Patterns of
Elderly Americans
Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan (University of Florida)
Are Travel Patterns of Older Drivers
Changing?
Kevin Heaslip (University of Florida)
4.5 TIME, GOOD, AND SERVICES
Session Chair : Nancy Folbre
Balancing time and money for family wellbeing in families with children and in younger couples?households
Kristiina Aalto and Johanna Varjonen
(National Consumer Research Centre, Finland)
When Do People Buy Goods and Services? Analyzing Individual Daily Demand by Micro-simulation Based on
New German Time Budget Diaries
Joachim Merz, Paul Bohm, Dominik Hanglberger,
Rafael Rucha and Henning Stolze (University of Lueneburg)
Household production or leisure?
A study of grocery and other shopping
Jing Cai (Western Michigan University)
Time-Intensity and the Composition of Consumption: Theory and Evidence
Yoo-Mi Chin (Michigan State University)
PLENARY THREE: NATIONAL TIME ACCOUNTING : THE CURRENCY OF LIFE
Session Chair : Jay Stewart
SESSIONS FIVE
5.1 EVENT HISTORY MODELS APPLIED TO TIME DATA
Session Chair : Jonathan Gershuny
Data Quality Issues in the Italian Longitudinal Household Panel (ILFI)
Lifecourse Event History Calendar and Dependent Interviewing
Mario Callegaro (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and
Ivano Bison (University of Trento)
Studying Time Use Variations Using A Life Course Perspective
Maroesjka Versantvoort (Leiden University)
Time and Timing of Employment Activity: Event History Calendars in the PSID
Robert Belli and Frank Stafford (University of Michigan)
The Use of Event History Calendars to Collect Information on Childhood Health
James Smith (RAND)
Lessons from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging Life History Interview - A Hybrid Event History
Calendar?
Kate Cox, Elizabeth Hacker, Carli Lessof and Alice McGee
(National Centre for Social Research, London)
5.2 PARENTING: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Session Chair : Jens Bonke
The Quantity and Quality of Child Care Provision in
Australian Households
Charlene Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and
Gigi Foster (University of South Australia)
Spousal Influences on U.S. Parents Non-Market Time Choices
Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College) and
Jean Kimmel (Western Michigan University)
Time Spent on Child Care in a Japanese Family
Masago Fujiwara (University of Shimane)
Does Parenthood Strengthen a Traditional Household Division of Labor? Everyday Time Use in Sweden, 1990/91-2000/01
Martin Dribe and Maria Stanfors (Lund University)
5.3 FAMILIES, TIME AND THE LIFE COURSE
Session Chair : Sandra Hofferth
Changing Time Use Patterns in Belgium: Differences
in Time Spent by Individuals and Households in 1999 and 2005
Ignace Glorieux and Joeri Minnen
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Role..ing Along the Life Course
Andrew Harvey and Jerome Singleton (Saint Mary’s University)
Designing a Time Diary to Study Disability, Time Use and Well-Being among Older Couples in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Vicki Freedman (University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey), Frank Stafford, Fred Conrad and
Norbert Schwarz (University of Michigan) and Peter Ubel (CBDSM)
When Do Fathers Care? Maternal Employment, Age of Children and Men’s Involvement in Childcare
Suzanne Bianchi and Rong Wang (University of Maryland)
5.4 ADDING AFFECT TO TIME DIARY ACCOUNTS
Session Chair : William Michelson
Discussion session
5.5 URBAN AND RURAL TIME USE
Session Chair : Duncan Ironmonger
Urban-Rural Contrasts in Travel and Space-Time
Activity Patterns: Methods and Preliminary Results
from the Halifax STAR Project
Hugh Millward (Saint Mary’s University)
Time Use in Farm Operator Households: How Do they Manage?
Mary Clare Ahearn, Karen Hamrick and Anne Effland (Economic Research Service, USDA)
Patterns of Time Use in Rural Locations in the United Kingdom
Kimberly Fisher, Evrim Altintas, Michael Corey,
Thomas Grund and Qianhan Lin (University of Oxford)
Time Use Patterns and the Quality of Life of the Poor
and the Non-poor in Rural Areas in Korea
Hee–Keum Cho, Lee Y.S. Daegu, O.S. Kim, S.M Lee,
D. S. Hong, H. S. Cho and Y. K. Kim (Daegu University)
SESSIONS SIX
6.1 TRAVEL TIME
Session Chair : Andrew Harvey
A Comparative Analysis of Italian and Americans Daily
Time-Use and Activity Patterns
Erika Spissu (University of Cagliari), Naveen Eluru and
Chandra Bhat (University of Texas at Austin)
National Travel Surveys versus Time Use Surveys: An
International Comparison Through Mobility and Work
Jimmy Armoogum (INRETS), Jean-Paul Hubert (INSEE)
and Marie Castaigne (FUNDP)
Travel Behaviour of Women, Men and Children: What
Changes and What Stays the Same?
Duncan Ironmonger and Philip Norman
(University of Melbourne)
Travel Time in a Brazilian City
Arnaldo Mont'Alv and Neuma Aguiar (UFMG-Brazil)
6.2 WORK AND NON-WORK TIME
Session Chair : Polly Phipps
Bad Money vs. Good Times? The Reconceptualization
of Wealth and the Moral Economy of Time in Late
Modernity
Paul Fuehrer (Stockholm University)
Economic Valuing Household Work in Korea, 1999 and 2004
Taehee Kwon (Sungkyunkwan University)
Remunerated Work and Leisure Time Activities
According To Social Class - A Study Of Daily Life
Workers In A Brazilian Capital
Luiz Flavio Neubert (UFMG-Brazil)
Work Schedules and Time Together within Australian
and French Dual-Earner Families
Laurent Lesnard (CNSR-France) and
James Mahmud Rice (Australian National University)
6.3 FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH
Session Chair : Karen Hamrick
Single-Parent Households, Meal Preparation Time,
and Food Security: Empirical Evidence on the
Forgotten Dimension in U.S. Nutrition Policy
Donald Rose (Duke University)
Does Time Spent Preparing Food Translate Into Better
Nutrition For Family Members? A Time Use and Food
Intake Analysis of Single and Dual-Earner Families
Yonatan Ben-Shalom (Johns Hopkins University)
Understanding Commuting and Grocery Shopping
Using the American Time Use Survey
Cheryl Brown and Tatiana Borisova
(West Virginia University)
Childhood Obesity: Does the Quality of Parental Time Matter?
George Davis and Wen You (Texas A&M University)
6.4 ACCESSING AND VISUALIZING TIME DIARY DATA
Session Chair : Dorinda Allard
The HETUS Interactive Data Archive
Klas Rydenstam (Statistics Sweden)
Limitations of the HETUS Interactive Data Archive
Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford) and
Kimberly Fisher (University of Oxford)
The MPRC-ATUS Interactive Data Archive
John Robinson (University of Maryland)
The IPEMS-ATUS Data Archive
Katharine Abraham (University of Maryland) and
Betsy Thorne (University of Maryland)
The Interactive Child Development Supplement from the PSID
Frank Stafford (University of Michigan)
Visualizing Time-Diary Patterns and Trends
William Michelson (University of Toronto) and
Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford)
SESSIONS SEVEN
7.1 FREE TIME ACTIVITIES
Session Chair : Kimberly Fisher
Harmonising Leisure Time Across Society and Family
James Mahmud Rice (Australian National University) and
Laurent Lesnard (CNRS-France)
Time Microeconomics
Raul Sanchis (University of Oslo)
Seasonal Variations in Behaviour: A Canadian
Perspective on Leisure Activities
Jamie Spinney and Jamie Newman
(Saint Mary’s University)
7.2 PARENTAL TIME WITH CHILDREN - THE BIG PICTURE
Session Chair : Rachel Connelly
A Continuing Trend of Increasing Paternal Involvement
with Fathers?
W. Jean Yeung (New York University) and
John Sandberg (McGill University)
Fathers' Time with Children Between Accessibility and
Direct Engagement
Tanja Muehling (University of Bamberg)
Has Parental Time with Children Decreased?
Pentti Takala (The Social Insurance Institution)
Children's and Parents' Time Use: Implications for Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Ana Rute Cardoso, Chiara Monfardini, Elsa Fontainha
7.3 TIME SPENT ON FOOD AND EATING
Session Chair : Karen Hamrick
Collecting Data on Eating Patterns, Obesity Risk and
Food Access: The Eating & Health Module
Karen Hamrick, Margaret Andrews and Joanne Guthrie
(Economic Research Service, USDA)
Time To Eat: Household Production Under Increasing
Income Inequality
Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin)
The Allocation of Time: Prepared Food or Preparing Food?
Sanae Tashiro (Rowan University)
The Time Cost of Food at Home: General and Food Stamp Participant Profiles
George Davis and Wen You (Texas A&M University)
7.4 WORK SCHEDULES AND WORK/LIFE BALANCE
Session Chair : Diane Herz
Specialization or Gender Roles: The Effect of Different Paid Work Models on
The Division of Household Labor
Michael Corey (University of Oxford)
Time Use and Work-Life Balance in Germany and the UK
Mark Smith (Manchester Business School),
Gwen Oliver (Manchester Business School),
Hermann Gro?(Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund),
Georg Sieglen (IAB Nordrhein-Westfalen) and
Frank Bauer (IAB Nordrhein-Westfalen
Time Use, Constraints, and Quality of Life of Women:
Making the Connection
Ram Pendyala, Xin Ye and Karthik Konduri (Arizona State)
The Importance of Paid Work for Social Integration
Jessie Vandeweyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
PLENARY FOUR : ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON TIME USE
Session Chair : Katharine Abraham
Economists?Use of Time Use Data
Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin)
Timeline Data Collection and Analysis:
Time Diary and Event History Calendar Methods
Frank Stafford (University of Michigan)
SESSIONS EIGHT
8.1 SURVEY METHODS RESEARCH
Session Chair : Stanley Presser
Estimating Survey Fatigue in Time Use Study
Kristen Backor, Saar Golde and Norman Nie
(Stanford University)
Improving Stylised Time Use Estimates from Time-
Diary Data: A Comparison of Two Approaches
Man Yee Kan (University of Oxford)
Measuring Item Non-Response of Diary Data in the
Harmonised European Time Use Survey Database
Paavo Visnen (Statistics Finland)
The Effects of Survey Nonresponse on Inferences
about Volunteer Work in the United States
Katharine Abraham, Sara Helms and Stanley Presser
(University of Maryland)
8.2 EMPLOYMENT OF PARENTS / TIME WITH CHILDREN
Session Chair : Liana Sayer
Right Place, Right Time: Parents' Employment Schedules and Allocation of Time to Children
Irina Paley (U.S. Treasury Department)
How Does Employment Affect the Timing of Time with Children?
Dori Allard and Jay Stewart (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
The Renegotiation of Fathers' Working Time
Gwen Oliver (University of Manchester)
Parental Childcare Time and Children’s Cognitive Development
Frank Stafford (University of Michigan) and W. Jean Yeung (New York University)
8.3 GENDER, TIME AND HOUSEWORK
Session Chair : Cathleen Zick
Why Less Household Labour Time for Women Doesn't
Mean Equal Division of Household Labour
Wencke Gwozdz (University of Hohenheim)
The Determinants of the Sexual Division of Labor in a
Brazilian City Undergoing A Modernization Process
Neuma Aguiar (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Tax-Induced Effects on Home Production Activities: An
Examination of the Canadian GST
Lindsay Tedds (University of Victoria) and
Adian McFarlane (University of Manitoba)
8.4 THE WORKDAY
Session Chair : Joachim Merz
Is There Life Before Work? Morning Schedules in France
Delphine Roy (INSEE)
Atypical and Flexible Working Hours. Working Time Patterns of 1999/2004 in Flanders/Belgium
Ignace Glorieux, Inge Mestdag and Joeri Minnen
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
When Home Becomes Work: Work and Leisure
Patterns of Home-Based Workers
Vanessa Wight (University of Maryland) and
Sara Raley (McDaniel College)
Nonstandard Work Hours: A Cross-National Comparison
Harriet Presser, Janet Gornick and Sangeeta Parashar
(University of Maryland)
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