Wedding Traditions of the Tahtaci Community in Aydın Region: Flag Display-Tapı/Sahabı Sayings- Head Sacrifice-Peace Dinner-Household Allocation

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
RIZA AKYUREK
Keyword(s):  
Household Allocation

Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance: Some Additional Evidence

1977 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Long ◽  
Russell F. Settle
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Allocation Of Time ◽  
Household Allocation

scholarly journals The Gender Gap in Employment Hours: Do Work-Hour Regulations Matter?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liana Christin Landivar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Work Hour ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Household Allocation ◽  
Weekly Work

In all developed countries, women, especially mothers, work fewer paid hours than their spouses. However, the magnitude of the gender gap varies significantly by country, ranging from 2 to 20 hours per week in this study. Using data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, this article investigates whether work-hour regulations have a significant effect on household allocation of paid labour and gender work-hour inequality. Two main types of work-hour regulations are examined: standard weekly work hours and the maximum allowable weekly work hours. Results show that households in countries with shorter maximum weekly work hours had less work-hour inequality between spouses, as each additional allowable overtime hour over the standard workweek increased the work-hour gap between couples by 20 minutes. These results indicate that couples’ inequality in work hours and gender inequality in labour supply are associated with country-level work-hour regulations.

scholarly journals The Role of Women in Income Production and Intra-household Allocation of Resources as a Determinant of Child Nutrition and Health

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Adequate Representation ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Key Steps ◽  
Household Allocation

This article presents a theoretical framework for answering the question, Does women's income-producing work result in an improvement or a deterioration in the health and nutritional status of their children? The author maintains that the literature has not provided clear evidence that the children of working mothers have lower nutritional status than those of mothers who do not work outside the home. She notes that previous studies have not controlled either for the family's income level or for other important variables, such as the presence of an employed male and land tenure status. Bennett argues that one of the key steps in understanding women's role in the determination of child health and nutritional status “may be a careful investigation of the process of resource allocation within the household. “ She opposes the use of a single joint-utility function as an adequate representation of household decision-making dynamics. Her recommendations include conducting investigations from an interdisciplinary approach, including economics, health, nutrition, and anthropology, and she presents a framework for these investigations.

scholarly journals Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-386
Author(s):  
Melanie Arntz ◽  
Sarra Ben Yahmed ◽  
Francesco Berlingieri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Household Allocation

AbstractAs the COVID-19 pandemic causes a record number of people to work from home, this disruptive event will likely have a long-lasting impact on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of working from home on hours worked and wages, an increased availability of working from home may provide a chance for women to catch up with their male counterparts. Yet, the need to simultaneously care for children during the COVID-19 lockdown may also revive traditional gender roles, potentially counteracting such gains. We discuss the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender gaps in the labour market and at home in light of recent empirical findings and novel statistics on the heterogeneous structure of work arrangements among couples. We construct a novel teleworkability index that differentiates between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs and find that in about a third of households the COVID-19 shock is likely to induce shifts in the intra-household allocation of tasks from mothers to fathers.

scholarly journals Using smartphone app collected data to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Daum ◽  
Filippo Capezzone ◽  
Regina Birner
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Compositional Data ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Compositional Data Analysis ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Smallholder Farming ◽  
Land Preparation ◽  
Allocation Of Time ◽  
Household Allocation

Abstract Digital tools may help to study socioeconomic aspects of agricultural development that are difficult to measure such as the effects of new policies and technologies on the intra-household allocation of time. As farm technologies target different crops and tasks, they can affect the time-use of men, women, boys, and girls differently. Development strategies that overlook such effects can have negative consequences for vulnerable household members. In this paper, the time-use patterns associated with different levels of agricultural mechanization during land preparation in smallholder farming households in Zambia were investigated. A novel data collection method was used: a pictorial smartphone application that allows real-time recording of time-use, which eliminates recall bias. Existing studies analyzing the intra-household allocation of resources often focus on adult males and females. This study paid particular attention to boys and girls as well as adults. The study addressed seasonal variations. Compositional data analysis was used to account for the co-dependence and sum constraint of time-use data. The study suggests a strong gender differentiation for land preparation activities among mechanized households; for households using manual labor, such differentiation was not found. There is some evidence that the surplus time associated with mechanization is used for off-farm and domestic work. The study cannot confirm concerns about negative second-round effects: mechanized land preparation is not associated with a higher workload for women and children during weeding and harvesting/processing. The study provides a proof-of-concept that smartphone applications can be used to collect socioeconomic data that are difficult to measure but of high relevance.

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