Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia
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...
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okr-10986-362302021-09-10T05:10:38Z Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia Hasanbasri, Ardina Kilic, Talip Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather ASSET OWNERSHIP WEALTH TIME USE LABOR GENDER HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIME ALLOCATION EMPLOYMENT 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. 2021-09-02T18:37:00Z 2021-09-02T18:37:00Z 2021-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/726271630415504648/Individual-Wealth-and-Time-Use-Evidence-from-Cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36230 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9765 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Cambodia |
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ASSET OWNERSHIP WEALTH TIME USE LABOR GENDER HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIME ALLOCATION EMPLOYMENT Hasanbasri, Ardina Kilic, Talip Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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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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Hasanbasri, Ardina Kilic, Talip Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather |
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Hasanbasri, Ardina Kilic, Talip Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather |
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Hasanbasri, Ardina |
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Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia |
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individual wealth and time use : evidence from cambodia |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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