Time Poverty Thresholds and Rates for the US Population |
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Authors: | Charlene M Kalenkoski Karen S Hamrick Margaret Andrews |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 351, Athens, OH 45701, USA;(2) USDA Economic Research Service, 1800 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-5831, USA |
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Abstract: | Time constraints, like money constraints, affect Americans’ well-being. This paper defines what it means to be time poor based
on the concepts of necessary and committed time and presents time poverty thresholds and rates for the US population and certain
subgroups. Multivariate regression techniques are used to identify the key variables associated with discretionary time and
time poverty. The data confirm the idea that individuals in households with children have less discretionary time and are
thus more likely to be time poor than those in households without children. Controlling for other household characteristics,
an additional child reduces a household adult’s daily discretionary time by 35 min. Surprisingly, while one might expect the
necessary and committed activities required of an individual to be less in a two-adult household with children than in a one-adult
household with children because child care can be shared, the data show that the presence of such a second adult only marginally
reduces the necessary and committed time burden of an individual household member. Perhaps even more surprisingly, household
income is not a statistically significant correlate of discretionary time or time poverty. |
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