Joan García Román
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 201800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joan García Román |
| PRENOMES | Joan García |
| SOBRENOME | Román |
| ASSINATURA | ROMÁN J G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre for Demographic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2254-5450 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 397 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Caring for non-household members: What is the adequate data to measure it
Care provided to individuals not living in the same household is an important part of the transmission of support to dependent persons, but there are methodological variations in how this is measured. This study compares reported time caring for adults or children living in other households by caregivers aged 50 and older using two surveys among seven European countries: the Harmonized Time Use Survey (HETUS) and the Survey of Health and Aging in…
Narratives of change and continuity in the perceived division of visible and invisible housework: A qualitative longitudinal assessment of men and women in Spain
Past research has shown persistent gender inequalities in housework; women not only invest more time on domestic task than men, but also assume responsibility and the related mental and emotional load. To better understand how flexible or resistant these gendered dynamics are over time, this article examines ’narratives around change and continuity in the perceived division of visible and invisible housework. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative i…
Determinants of Regional Disparities in Older Adult – Child Coresidence in China
As population aging accelerates, understanding the living arrangements of older adults – particularly their coresidence with children – is crucial to addressing their diverse needs. While intergenerational coresidence has been widely studied across countries and over time, regional differences within countries remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining regional variations in intergenerational coresidence among older adults i…
Gender differences in routine housework among one-person households: A cross-national analysis
BACKGROUND: Housework has long been associated with gender roles, with women traditionally burdened as the primary caregivers in many societies. However, most studies focus on the general population or on couples. This study explores the often overlooked domain of housework in one-person households, where the negotiation of tasks and roles is absent and individuals are solely responsible for their domestic chores. OBJECTIVE: Drawing from data col…
Household Size and Housework Time in Latin America
This study investigates the relationship between household size and time spent on housework in Latin American countries, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. Drawing on data from time-use surveys conducted since 2009, it examines how housework distribution varies by household composition and individual characteristics such as employment status, education, and age. Our analysis reveals that larger households require more total housewo…
Convergencia de género en el uso del tiempo en el País Vasco. Un análisis a partir de 25 años de la Encuesta de Presupuestos del Tiempo (1993-2018)
Aunque siguen existiendo diferencias de género en el uso del tiempo, en las últimas décadas se ha dado, en la mayoría de sociedades, una convergencia en el tiempo que hombres y mujeres dedican a actividades que tradicionalmente han reflejado la división de roles en el hogar. Este artículo explora cómo ha cambiado el uso del tiempo de las mujeres y hombres en el País Vasco durante un período de 25 años (1993-2018), en el transcurso del cual ha mej…
Cross-national differences in adolescents’ sleep patterns: A time-use approach
Good sleep contributes to health and performance.However, insufficient and poor sleep are very common among adolescents today.This study examines cross-national differences in adolescents' sleep and activity patterns across Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and the UK, using an innovative 24-hour timeuse approach with time-diary data (N = 25,248 diaries; mean age 15.4 years; 50.3% girls).Sleep duratio…
Daily activities of older adults before and during the Covid pandemic
COVID-19 shifted the daily life of older adults, and our findings are consistent with selection, optimization, and compensation theory, documenting that older adult adapted across the first 2 years of the pandemic
Patrones de género en la dedicación al trabajo doméstico no remunerado de la población adulta mayor en dieciocho países europeos
En este artículo se analiza la dedicación al trabajo doméstico no remunerado de la población entre 55 y 71 años en dieciocho paíseseuropeos. Se utiliza la encuesta SHARE, que incluye por primera vez un módulo específico de «usos del tiempo» para determinar la dedicación de mujeres y hombres al trabajo doméstico no remunerado. Los primeros resultados confirman que en los países del Mediterráneo y Este se destina más tiempo, pero que, en el centro,…
Housework time and task segregation: Revisiting gender inequality among parents in 15 European countries
Background: Although most countries show a general convergence in men's and women's investment in domestic labor, women continue doing more housework, especially among couples with children. However, cross-national descriptive estimates have focused exclusively on routine tasks, thus overlooking potential change in gender inequality in non-routine tasks, as well as the total housework investment, which varies significantly across countries. Objec…
La división de los roles de género en las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer en Estados Unidos y España
Las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer son inusuales y representan una asignación atípica de roles en el hogar. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer y su división de los roles de género en Estados Unidos y España. Este estudio revela que estas parejas son más igualitarias que otros tipos de parejas y que esta tipología de pareja ha cambiado significativamente en España, mientras que sus caract…
The division of housework and re‐partnering in Europe: Is there a West/East divide
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe
It is well-established that internal migration is selective, particularly with respect to age, educational attainment, and nativity status. However, the interplay between education and immigrantsâ origin remains largely unknown. Thus, it is unclear how the
Gender differences in child and adolescent daily activities: A cross-national time use study
This study used 2009-2015 time-diary data to examine gender differences in daily activities among children and adolescents aged 10-17 in Finland, Spain and the UK ( N = 3517). In all three countries, boys were significantly more involved in screen-based activities and exercising and girls in domestic work, non-screen educational activities and personal care. Gender differences in socializing time were only significant in the UK, with girls social…
Couples’ Relative Education and the Division of Domestic Work in France, Spain, and the United States
The reversal of the gender gap in education and the emergence of couples in which the woman has a better economic or education status than her partner have been key shifts in family dynamics in recent decades. One of the consequences of this phenomenon is a more egalitarian division of tasks within couples, which is derived from the stronger resources of more educated women to negotiate roles. In this paper, I explored the division of unpaid dome…
Contour of the Day: Social Patterning of Time in Later Life and Variation in Reported Well-Being in Activities
Objective: To contextualize experiences of activities during the day and investigate whether the contour of the day is correlated with well-being during activities. Methods: Drawing on American Time Use Surveys, we employ sequence and cluster analyses to create distinct typologies of daily life patterns, and bivariate analyses to describe whether well-being across activities varies by these typologies. Results: We identified four typologies chara…
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain
In most Western countries, there is clear evidence of a reduction and even a reversal of the gender gap in education. However, there are doubts about the effect of this reversal on family life and about its impact on the distribution of gender roles within couples. Using data from the Spanish time use survey of 2009–10, this paper explores whether the improved education of women is translating to better occupations and higher incomes and whether …
Rethinking Couples' Fertility in Spain: Do Partners' Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter
Fertility decisions among Spanish couples have been strongly driven by economic uncertainty in a context in which dual-earner couples have become the norm and in which the gender gap in education has reversed. However, the partners' respective jobs do not carry the same weight in such decisions. We explore how homogamous or heterogamous education, employment, and job stability between partners can provide insights into couples' fertility decision…
Same-Sex Couples’ Shared Time in the United States
This study examines and compares shared time for same-sex and different-sex coresident couples using large, nationally representative data from the 2003–2016 American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We compare the total time that same-sex couples and different-sex couples spend together; for parents, the time they spend together with children; and for both parents and nonparents, the time they spend together with no one else present and the time they spe…
Child and Adolescent Time Use: A Cross-National Study
ObjectiveThis study examined the differences in child and adolescent time use across the following three countries with distinct policy and cultural regimes: Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.BackgroundStudying children's time use cross-nationally is urgent to better understand how societal contexts influence children's daily lives in ways that affect their future lifestyles, development, and identity formation. Yet previous studies have lar…
Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010-2050
Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the 1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent decades, though, this pattern has begun shifting to one of later and less marriage
Solitary Day, Solitary Activities, and Associations With Well-Being Among Older Adults
A sizable proportion of older adults reported solitary days, and proportion of the day spent in solitary activities increases by age. Examining lived experiences of older adults and presence of others during activities could contribute to research on social isolation
Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries: Structural constraints versus assortative mating
Child and Adolescent Developmental Activities and Time Use in Spain: The Gendered Role of Parents' Work Schedules and Education Levels
This study analyses how the daily activities of children and adolescents differ by parents' work schedules, using data from the ‘2009–10 Spanish Time Use Survey’ (N = 913). Spain is an interesting institutional context for its widespread evening-work culture, combined with inflexible and gendered work-family arrangements. Results imply that parents' time availability, family resources, and gender roles significantly influence children's daily act…
General and proximal associations between unpaid eldercare, time constraints and subjective well-being
Using 2012/13 American Time Use Survey, we find as compared to non-caregivers, caregivers report less time on personal care, social activities and sports and more time on housework. They also report higher stress and lower happiness when engaged in daily activities. Further, using diary information which captures activities during a 24-hour window, we compare caregivers on days they provide care and caregivers on days they do not provide care. Ca…
The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications
The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 with a college education was higher than that of men in more than 139 countries which altogether represent 86% of the world's population. According to recent population forecasts, women will have more education than men in nearly every country in the world by 2050, with the…
The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation: The End of Hypergamy
Newly released census microdata reveal the nearly worldwide and substantial decline in educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher educational attainment) across 56 countries from the 1970s to the 2000s. We examine the extent to which the observed decrease in hypergamy is connected to the worldwide rise in female educational attainment. Our results show that educational hypergamy is an enduring form of gender inequality in union formati…
Hominin dispersals from the Jaramillo subchron in central and south-western Europe: Untermassfeld (Germany) and Vallparadís (Spain)
The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood in Latin America
The dramatic shift from marriage to cohabitation during the last four decades in most Latin American countries, even among the upper social strata, begs the question as to the living arrangements of cohabiting couples and single mothers. The new "Family Interrelationships Variables" in the IPUMS samples of Latin American censuses facilitated the construction of an enlarged LIPRO typology. LIPRO classifies individuals with respect to the types of …
Cambios en el uso del tiempo de las parejas ¿Estamos en el camino hacia una mayor igualdad
El artículo analiza cómo han evolucionado las desigualdades de género a partir de las dos encuestas sobre el uso del tiempo llevadas a cabo por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística en 2002-2003 y 2009-2010. En primer lugar se analizan los cambios en el uso del tiempo y las características de las parejas a nivel descriptivo. En esta primera parte se observa una disminución de las desigualdades así como un incremento de parejas con características …
Child and Adolescent Time Use: A Cross-National Study
ObjectiveThis study examined the differences in child and adolescent time use across the following three countries with distinct policy and cultural regimes: Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.BackgroundStudying children's time use cross-nationally is urgent to better understand how societal contexts influence children's daily lives in ways that affect their future lifestyles, development, and identity formation. Yet previous studies have lar…
Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
We explore the impact of sociodemographic change on marriage patterns in India by examining the hypothetical consequences of applying three sets of marriage pairing propensities—contemporary patterns by age, contemporary patterns by age and education, and changing propensities that allow for greater educational homogamy and reduced educational asymmetries—to future population projections. Future population prospects for India indicate three trend…
Gender differences in child and adolescent daily activities: A cross-national time use study
This study used 2009-2015 time-diary data to examine gender differences in daily activities among children and adolescents aged 10-17 in Finland, Spain and the UK ( N = 3517). In all three countries, boys were significantly more involved in screen-based activities and exercising and girls in domestic work, non-screen educational activities and personal care. Gender differences in socializing time were only significant in the UK, with girls social…
Child and Adolescent Developmental Activities and Time Use in Spain: The Gendered Role of Parents' Work Schedules and Education Levels
This study analyses how the daily activities of children and adolescents differ by parents' work schedules, using data from the ‘2009–10 Spanish Time Use Survey’ (N = 913). Spain is an interesting institutional context for its widespread evening-work culture, combined with inflexible and gendered work-family arrangements. Results imply that parents' time availability, family resources, and gender roles significantly influence children's daily act…
Human Development Index-like Small Area Estimates for Africa Computed from Ipums-International Integrated Census Microdata
This paper analyzes 24 African census samples from 13 countries available via the African Integrated Census MicroData website to illustrate how microdata may be used to assess development and pinpoint basic human needs at local administrative levels over time. We calculate a Human Development Index-like measure for small administrative areas, where much of the responsibility lies for executing policies related to health, education and general wel…
Trends in Spouses’ Shared Time in the United States, 1965–2012
Despite major demographic changes over the past 50 years and strong evidence that time spent with a spouse is important for marriages, we know very little about how time with a spouse has changed—or not—in the United States. Using time diary data from 1965–2012, we examine trends in couples’ shared time in the United States during a period of major changes in American marriages and families. We find that couples without children spent more total …
Hominin multiple occupations in the Early and Middle Pleistocene sequence of Vallparadís (Barcelona, Spain)
Parents' time with a partner in a cross-national context: A comparison of the United States, Spain, and France
BACKGROUND: Time shared with a partner is an indicator of marital well-being and couples want to spend time together. However, time with a partner depends on work and family arrangements as well as the policies, norms, and values that prevail in society. Contrary to time spent with children, couples' shared time in cross-national context is relatively unstudied. Previous studies from specific countries show that dual-earner couples spend less tim…
La división de los roles de género en las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer en Estados Unidos y España
Las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer son inusuales y representan una asignación atípica de roles en el hogar. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar las parejas en las que solo trabaja la mujer y su división de los roles de género en Estados Unidos y España. Este estudio revela que estas parejas son más igualitarias que otros tipos de parejas y que esta tipología de pareja ha cambiado significativamente en España, mientras que sus caract…
Solitary Day, Solitary Activities, and Associations With Well-Being Among Older Adults
A sizable proportion of older adults reported solitary days, and proportion of the day spent in solitary activities increases by age. Examining lived experiences of older adults and presence of others during activities could contribute to research on social isolation
Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries: Structural constraints versus assortative mating
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain
In most Western countries, there is clear evidence of a reduction and even a reversal of the gender gap in education. However, there are doubts about the effect of this reversal on family life and about its impact on the distribution of gender roles within couples. Using data from the Spanish time use survey of 2009–10, this paper explores whether the improved education of women is translating to better occupations and higher incomes and whether …
Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010-2050
Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the 1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent decades, though, this pattern has begun shifting to one of later and less marriage
El tiempo productivo, reproductivo y de ocio en las parejas de doble ingreso
Tot i que la incorporació de la dona al món laboral trenca amb el principi més elemental del model familiar tradicional, algunes de les característiques d’aquest model segueixen vigents. Per abordar amb més detall aquesta vigència, i a partir de l’Enquesta d’ús del temps 2002-2003, l’article compara el repartiment del temps quotidià que té lloc en les parelles de doble ingrés i el que té lloc en les parelles on només treballa l’home. Aquesta comp…
Housework time and task segregation: Revisiting gender inequality among parents in 15 European countries
Background: Although most countries show a general convergence in men's and women's investment in domestic labor, women continue doing more housework, especially among couples with children. However, cross-national descriptive estimates have focused exclusively on routine tasks, thus overlooking potential change in gender inequality in non-routine tasks, as well as the total housework investment, which varies significantly across countries. Objec…
Same-Sex Couples’ Shared Time in the United States
This study examines and compares shared time for same-sex and different-sex coresident couples using large, nationally representative data from the 2003–2016 American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We compare the total time that same-sex couples and different-sex couples spend together; for parents, the time they spend together with children; and for both parents and nonparents, the time they spend together with no one else present and the time they spe…
Anthropometric Geography Applied to the Analysis of Socio‐economic Disparities: Cohort Trends and Spatial Patterns of Height and Robustness in 20th‐Century Spain
Anthropometrics have been widely used to study the influence of environmental factors on health and nutritional status. In contrast, anthropometric geography has not often been employed to approximate the dynamics of spatial disparities associated with socioeconomic and demographic changes. Spain exhibited intense disparity and change during the middle decades of the 20 th century, with the result that the life courses of the corresponding cohort…
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe
It is well-established that internal migration is selective, particularly with respect to age, educational attainment, and nativity status. However, the interplay between education and immigrantsâ origin remains largely unknown. Thus, it is unclear how the
Rethinking Couples' Fertility in Spain: Do Partners' Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter
Fertility decisions among Spanish couples have been strongly driven by economic uncertainty in a context in which dual-earner couples have become the norm and in which the gender gap in education has reversed. However, the partners' respective jobs do not carry the same weight in such decisions. We explore how homogamous or heterogamous education, employment, and job stability between partners can provide insights into couples' fertility decision…
Long-term hominin occupation during the Middle and early Late Pleistocene: Chronostratigraphy of the Ter River basin (Girona, North-eastern Spain)
El tiempo productivo, reproductivo y de ocio en las parejas de doble ingreso
Tot i que la incorporació de la dona al món laboral trenca amb el principi més elemental del model familiar tradicional, algunes de les característiques d’aquest model segueixen vigents. Per abordar amb més detall aquesta vigència, i a partir de l’Enquesta d’ús del temps 2002-2003, l’article compara el repartiment del temps quotidià que té lloc en les parelles de doble ingrés i el que té lloc en les parelles on només treballa l’home. Aquesta comp…
The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood in Latin America
The dramatic shift from marriage to cohabitation during the last four decades in most Latin American countries, even among the upper social strata, begs the question as to the living arrangements of cohabiting couples and single mothers. The new "Family Interrelationships Variables" in the IPUMS samples of Latin American censuses facilitated the construction of an enlarged LIPRO typology. LIPRO classifies individuals with respect to the types of …
The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation: The End of Hypergamy
Newly released census microdata reveal the nearly worldwide and substantial decline in educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher educational attainment) across 56 countries from the 1970s to the 2000s. We examine the extent to which the observed decrease in hypergamy is connected to the worldwide rise in female educational attainment. Our results show that educational hypergamy is an enduring form of gender inequality in union formati…
The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
In this article, we explore the impacts that education expansion and increased levels in educational homogamy have had on couples’ isolated illiteracy rates, defined as the proportion of illiterates in union that are married to an illiterate partner. First, we develop the methodology to decompose isolated illiteracy rates into two main components: one related to level of homogamy among illiterates, and the other related to the educational distrib…
Hominin multiple occupations in the Early and Middle Pleistocene sequence of Vallparadís (Barcelona, Spain)
Hominin dispersals from the Jaramillo subchron in central and south-western Europe: Untermassfeld (Germany) and Vallparadís (Spain)
Anthropometric Geography Applied to the Analysis of Socio‐economic Disparities: Cohort Trends and Spatial Patterns of Height and Robustness in 20th‐Century Spain
Anthropometrics have been widely used to study the influence of environmental factors on health and nutritional status. In contrast, anthropometric geography has not often been employed to approximate the dynamics of spatial disparities associated with socioeconomic and demographic changes. Spain exhibited intense disparity and change during the middle decades of the 20 th century, with the result that the life courses of the corresponding cohort…
Cambios en el uso del tiempo de las parejas ¿Estamos en el camino hacia una mayor igualdad
El artículo analiza cómo han evolucionado las desigualdades de género a partir de las dos encuestas sobre el uso del tiempo llevadas a cabo por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística en 2002-2003 y 2009-2010. En primer lugar se analizan los cambios en el uso del tiempo y las características de las parejas a nivel descriptivo. En esta primera parte se observa una disminución de las desigualdades así como un incremento de parejas con características …
Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
We explore the impact of sociodemographic change on marriage patterns in India by examining the hypothetical consequences of applying three sets of marriage pairing propensities—contemporary patterns by age, contemporary patterns by age and education, and changing propensities that allow for greater educational homogamy and reduced educational asymmetries—to future population projections. Future population prospects for India indicate three trend…
Long-term hominin occupation during the Middle and early Late Pleistocene: Chronostratigraphy of the Ter River basin (Girona, North-eastern Spain)
Human Development Index-like Small Area Estimates for Africa Computed from Ipums-International Integrated Census Microdata
This paper analyzes 24 African census samples from 13 countries available via the African Integrated Census MicroData website to illustrate how microdata may be used to assess development and pinpoint basic human needs at local administrative levels over time. We calculate a Human Development Index-like measure for small administrative areas, where much of the responsibility lies for executing policies related to health, education and general wel…
Trends in Spouses’ Shared Time in the United States, 1965–2012
Despite major demographic changes over the past 50 years and strong evidence that time spent with a spouse is important for marriages, we know very little about how time with a spouse has changed—or not—in the United States. Using time diary data from 1965–2012, we examine trends in couples’ shared time in the United States during a period of major changes in American marriages and families. We find that couples without children spent more total …
The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications
The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 with a college education was higher than that of men in more than 139 countries which altogether represent 86% of the world's population. According to recent population forecasts, women will have more education than men in nearly every country in the world by 2050, with the…
General and proximal associations between unpaid eldercare, time constraints and subjective well-being
Using 2012/13 American Time Use Survey, we find as compared to non-caregivers, caregivers report less time on personal care, social activities and sports and more time on housework. They also report higher stress and lower happiness when engaged in daily activities. Further, using diary information which captures activities during a 24-hour window, we compare caregivers on days they provide care and caregivers on days they do not provide care. Ca…
Parents' time with a partner in a cross-national context: A comparison of the United States, Spain, and France
BACKGROUND: Time shared with a partner is an indicator of marital well-being and couples want to spend time together. However, time with a partner depends on work and family arrangements as well as the policies, norms, and values that prevail in society. Contrary to time spent with children, couples' shared time in cross-national context is relatively unstudied. Previous studies from specific countries show that dual-earner couples spend less tim…
Child and Adolescent Developmental Activities and Time Use in Spain: The Gendered Role of Parents' Work Schedules and Education Levels
This study analyses how the daily activities of children and adolescents differ by parents' work schedules, using data from the ‘2009–10 Spanish Time Use Survey’ (N = 913). Spain is an interesting institutional context for its widespread evening-work culture, combined with inflexible and gendered work-family arrangements. Results imply that parents' time availability, family resources, and gender roles significantly influence children's daily act…
Solitary Day, Solitary Activities, and Associations With Well-Being Among Older Adults
A sizable proportion of older adults reported solitary days, and proportion of the day spent in solitary activities increases by age. Examining lived experiences of older adults and presence of others during activities could contribute to research on social isolation
Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries: Structural constraints versus assortative mating
Same-Sex Couples’ Shared Time in the United States
This study examines and compares shared time for same-sex and different-sex coresident couples using large, nationally representative data from the 2003–2016 American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We compare the total time that same-sex couples and different-sex couples spend together; for parents, the time they spend together with children; and for both parents and nonparents, the time they spend together with no one else present and the time they spe…
Child and Adolescent Time Use: A Cross-National Study
ObjectiveThis study examined the differences in child and adolescent time use across the following three countries with distinct policy and cultural regimes: Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.BackgroundStudying children's time use cross-nationally is urgent to better understand how societal contexts influence children's daily lives in ways that affect their future lifestyles, development, and identity formation. Yet previous studies have lar…
Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010-2050
Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the 1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent decades, though, this pattern has begun shifting to one of later and less marriage
Couples’ Relative Education and the Division of Domestic Work in France, Spain, and the United States
The reversal of the gender gap in education and the emergence of couples in which the woman has a better economic or education status than her partner have been key shifts in family dynamics in recent decades. One of the consequences of this phenomenon is a more egalitarian division of tasks within couples, which is derived from the stronger resources of more educated women to negotiate roles. In this paper, I explored the division of unpaid dome…
Contour of the Day: Social Patterning of Time in Later Life and Variation in Reported Well-Being in Activities
Objective: To contextualize experiences of activities during the day and investigate whether the contour of the day is correlated with well-being during activities. Methods: Drawing on American Time Use Surveys, we employ sequence and cluster analyses to create distinct typologies of daily life patterns, and bivariate analyses to describe whether well-being across activities varies by these typologies. Results: We identified four typologies chara…
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain
In most Western countries, there is clear evidence of a reduction and even a reversal of the gender gap in education. However, there are doubts about the effect of this reversal on family life and about its impact on the distribution of gender roles within couples. Using data from the Spanish time use survey of 2009–10, this paper explores whether the improved education of women is translating to better occupations and higher incomes and whether …
Rethinking Couples' Fertility in Spain: Do Partners' Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter
Fertility decisions among Spanish couples have been strongly driven by economic uncertainty in a context in which dual-earner couples have become the norm and in which the gender gap in education has reversed. However, the partners' respective jobs do not carry the same weight in such decisions. We explore how homogamous or heterogamous education, employment, and job stability between partners can provide insights into couples' fertility decision…
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