Examples of How ATUS Data are Being Used in Research

• Published Articles
• Working Papers

Disclaimer: The authors of these studies are not affiliated with BLS and the links, below, are to non-BLS Internet sites. This information is provided for your convenience and does not constitute an endorsement.

Published Articles

• Does Housework Matter Anymore? The Shifting Impact of Housework on Economic Inequality
  Cathleen D. Zick, W. Keith Bryant, Sivithee Srisukhumbowornchai. Review of Economics of the Household. Volume 6, No. 1/March 2008.



• The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
  Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil. In Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy? Oxford University Press, February 2008.



• Direct Estimates of Household Production
  Daniel S. Hamermesh. Economic Letters. Volume 98, No. 1/January 2008.



• Here Comes The Rain Again: Weather and the Intertemporal Substitution of Leisure
  Marie Connolly. Journal of Labor Economics. Volume 26, No. 1/January 2008.



• Parent-Child Quality Time: Does Birth Order Matter
  Joseph Price. Journal of Human Resources. Volume 43, No. 1/Winter 2008.



• The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
  Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar and Leslie S. Stratton. Review of Economics of the Household. Volume 5, No. 4/December 2007.



• Lifecycle Prices and Production
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst. American Economic Review. Volume 97, No. 5/December 2007.



• Time to Eat:  Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality
  Daniel S. Hamermesh. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Volume 89, No. 4/November 2007.



• What is Child Care? Lessons from Time Use Surveys of Major English-Speaking Countries
  Nancy Folbre and Jayoung Yoon. Review of Economics of the Household. Volume 5, No. 3/October 2007.



• Walking behaviours from the 1965-2003 American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) (Abstract) (PDF) (273K)
  Catrine Tudor-Locke, et al. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Volume 4, No. 1/September 2007.



• Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 122, No. 3/August 2007.



• Mothers' Time Choices: Caregiving, Leisure, Home Production and Paid Work
  Jean Kimmel and Rachel Connelly. Journal of Human Resources. Volume 42, No. 3/Summer 2007.



• Health-Related Activities in the American Time Use Survey
  Louise B. Rusell, Yoko Ibuka, and Katharine G. Abraham. Medical Care. Volume 45, No. 7/July 2007.



• Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Jungmin Lee. The Review of Economics and Statistics. Volume 89, No. 2/May 2007.



• Physical Activity during the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
  Cathleen D. Zick, et al. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Volume 4, No. 2/April 2007.



• Day of the week lost time occupational injury trends in the US by gender and industry and their implications for work scheduling
  G.E. Brogmus. Ergonomics. Volume 50, No. 3/March 2007.



• Are We Having More Fun Yet? Categorizing and Evaluating Changes in Time Allocation
  Alan B. Krueger. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Volume 38, No. 2/2007.



• American Time Use Survey: Sleep Time and Its Relationship to Waking Activities
  Mathias Basner, et al. Journal of Sleep. Volume 30, No. 9/2007.



• Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time use Study (AHTUS)
  Kimberly Fisher, Muriel Egerton, Jonathan Gershuny, and John P. Robinson. Social Indicators Research. Volume 82, No. 1/August 2006.



• Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion
  Daniel Kahneman, et al. Science. Volume 312, No. 5782/June 2006.



• Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter? (Abstract) (PDF) (135K)
  Katharine G. Abraham, Aaron Maitland and Suzanne M. Bianchi. Public Opinion Quarterly. Volume 70, No. 5/2006.

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Working Papers

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Effect of Time Spent Grooming on Wages (Abstract)
  Jayoti Das and Stephen B. DeLoach (January 2008)



• Work-Study: Time Use Tradeoffs, Student Work Hours and Implications for Youth Employment Policy (Abstract)
  John Baffoe-Bonnie and Lonnie Golden (December 2007)



• Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
  John Cawley and Feng Liu. NBER Working Paper No. 13609. (November 2007)



• Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
  John Cawley and Feng Liu. NBER Working Paper No. 13600. (November 2007)



• Work, Rest, and Play: Exploring Trends in Time Allocation in Canada and the United States (Abstract)
  Adian McFarlane and Lindsay M. Tedds (July 2007)



• Spousal Influences on Parents’ Non-market Time Choices (Abstract)
  Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel (May 2007)



• The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Stephen Donald. NBER Working Paper No. 13127. (May 2007)



• Fathers’ Time Investments in Children: Do Sons Get More? (PDF) (359K)
  Kristin Mammen (April 2007)



• Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
  Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weill. NBER Working Paper No. 13000. (March 2007)



• Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families (PDF) (137K)
  Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan (January 2007)



• A Century of Work and Leisure
  Valerie A. Ramey and Neville Francis. NBER Working Paper 12264. (May 2006)



• Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform
  Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan. NBER Working Paper W11976. (January 2006)



• The Time Use of Teenagers (PDF) (192K)
  Joseph Price, Bijou Hunt, Vanessa Wight, and Suzanne Bianchi (2006)



• Accounting for Nonmarket Production: A Prototype Satellite Account Using the American Time Use Survey (PDF) (103K)
  J. Steven Landefeld, Barbara M. Fraumeni, and Cindy M. Vojtech (December 2005)



• The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter? (ABSTRACT)
  Shelly Lundberg (September 2005)



• American Time Use 1965-2003: The Construction of a Historical Comparative File, and Consideration of its Usefulness in the Construction of Extended National Accounts for the USA (PDF) (349K)
  Muriel Egerton, Kimberly Fisher, and Jonathan Gershuny. Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research Working Paper 2005-28. (2005)

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