Reliability, Validity, and Variability of the Subjective Well-Being Questions in the 2010 American Time Use Survey

Time together as a family is a crucial dimension of family life. However, its impact on personal happiness is not well understood. I use the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2014–2015 to study how time spent with partners and children affects daily subjective well-being. Overall, I find that family time, couple time, and time alone with children contributes significantly to mothers’ and fathers’ well-being. I show that the activities that families share together mediate an important part of the enjoyment of time together but do not entirely explain this association. This suggests that beyond what families do together, families enjoy being together. I find that fathers enjoy family time more than mothers do. I demonstrate that the unequal division of labour during family time explains this discrepancy. I conclude by discussing the recent transformations of intimate relationships.

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Unpacking the Parenting Well-Being Gap: The Role of Dynamic Features of Daily Life across Broader Social Contexts

Social Psychology Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0190272520902453 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 83 (3) ◽

pp. 207-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniela Veronica Negraia ◽

Jennifer March Augustine

Keyword(s):

Positive Emotions ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Well Being ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Dynamic Features ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Contextual Variation ◽

Time Use Survey

Although public debate ensues over whether parents or nonparents have higher levels of emotional well-being, scholars suggest that being a parent is associated with a mixed bag of emotions. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey for the years 2010, 2012, and 2013 and unique measures of subjective well-being that capture positive and negative emotions linked to daily activities, we “unpack” this mixed bag. We do so by examining contextual variation in the parenting emotions gap based on activity type, whether parents’ children were present, parenting stage, and respondent’s gender. We found that parenting was associated with more positive emotions than nonparenting, but also more negative emotions. This pattern existed only during housework and leisure, not during paid work. Moreover, patterns in positive emotions existed only when parents’ children were present; patterns in negative emotions were primarily observed during earlier stages of parenting. Results were similar for men and women.

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The Impact of Terrorism on Individual Well-Being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing

The Economic Journal ◽

10.1093/ej/ueaa053 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 130 (631) ◽

pp. 2065-2104 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andrew E Clark ◽

Orla Doyle ◽

Elena Stancanelli

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Regression Discontinuity ◽

Well Being ◽

Economic Consequences ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Daily Data ◽

Boston Marathon Bombing ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Boston Marathon ◽

The Impact

Abstract A growing literature has concluded that terrorism affects the economy, yet less is known about its impact on individual welfare. This article estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston marathon bombing on well-being, exploiting representative daily data from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Supplement. Using a combined regression discontinuity and differences-in-differences design, with the 2012 Boston marathon as a counterfactual, we find an immediate reduction in well-being of a third of a standard deviation. In particular, happiness declined sharply and negative emotions rose significantly. While the effects do not persist beyond one week, they may entail adverse health and economic consequences.

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Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data

Journal of Happiness Studies ◽

10.1007/s10902-020-00320-x ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Thi Truong An Hoang ◽

Andreas Knabe

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Weighted Average ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Work Related ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

The Uk ◽

The Unemployed ◽

Affective Dimensions

Abstract We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person’s employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We do not find clear indications that employed and unemployed persons experience different average levels of emotional well-being when they engage in the same kinds of activities. For the employed, working belongs to one of the least enjoyable activities of their day. They also spend a large share of their time at work and on work-related activities. The unemployed, instead, spend more time on leisure and more enjoyable activities. When looking at duration-weighted average affective well-being over the entire waking time of the day, the unemployed experience, on average, more enjoyment than the employed. For the employed, the more hours they have to work on a specific day, the lower the average enjoyment they experience on that day. Differentiating the analyses by weekdays and weekends supports the finding that being able to freely allocate one’s non-work time is associated with higher levels of affective well-being. In line with previous studies on cognitive well-being, we find that the unemployed report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than the employed.

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Work time and well-being for workers at home: evidence from the American Time Use Survey

International Journal of Manpower ◽

10.1108/ijm-04-2018-0134 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 184-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal ◽

José Alberto Molina ◽

Jorge Velilla

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Time Allocation ◽

Well Being ◽

Content Type ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Work From Home ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Using Data ◽

Negative Feelings ◽

Allocation Decisions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the time-allocation decisions of individuals who work from home (i.e. teleworkers), and compare them with their commuter counterparts. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003–2015, the authors analyze the time spent working, and the timing of work, of both commuters and teleworkers. Findings Results show that teleworkers devote 40 percent less time to market work activities than do commuters, and less than 60 percent of teleworkers work at “regular hours,” vs around 80 percent of their commuter counterparts. Using information from the Well-being Module for the years 2012 and 2013, the authors find that male teleworkers experience lower levels of negative feelings while working than do commuters. Originality/value This paper addresses the timing of work of workers working from home; and the instant well-being experienced, exploiting information at diary level.

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