A better understanding of how individual wealth and time use are linked — across paid, unpaid, and leisure activities — is important for targeting widespread gender inequalities in time allocation, as well as in accessing economic opportunities. The lack of reliable, individual-level data on asset ownership across different subpopulations, however, has limited discussions of these issues in the literature. Using a unique nationally representative survey from Cambodia, this paper shows that individual wealth, as measured through self-reported ownership of physical and financial assets, is significantly associated with time allocation to different activities. The role of asset ownership in time use is also stronger, particularly among women, vis-à-vis the competing proxies for socioeconomic status. Ownership of financial accounts, motorized vehicles, and mobile phones — all of which can improve access to networks, markets, and services — is associated with less time in unpaid work, and in some cases greater time in paid work, specifically among women in off-farm jobs. There are also distinct gender differences in how men and women shift their time away from leisure and childcare, highlighting the importance of social norms in choices over time use. The analysis highlights the utility of integrated, intra-household, individual-disaggregated data collection on asset ownership, time use, and employment in lower-income contexts.
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作者
Hasanbasri,Ardina Roosiany, Kilic,Talip, Koolwal,Gayatri B., Moylan,Heather G.
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文件日期
2021/08/31
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文件类型
政策研究报告
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报告号
WPS9765
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卷号
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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发布日期
2021/08/31
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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文件名称
Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia
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关键词
Time of Use; access to financial service; Ownership Share Type; unpaid work; household fixed effect; financial account; years of schooling; types of asset; time allocation; estimation of equation; income generating activity; nationally representative survey; old age group; labor market activity; ownership of asset; rights to sell; class of asset; household and individual; effect of transfer; bundle of rights; information on education; care for child; module on education; Access to Electricity; formal financial institution; national policy making; control of asset; pattern of ownership; national household survey; place of work; share of earning; access to network; access network; share of woman; gdp growth rate; rural man; Women in Agriculture; dimension of woman; areas of work; socioeconomic status; domestic work; labor module; motorized vehicles
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