A team of American University doctoral students in economics presented their research at
the International Association on Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference held last
August 5-7, 2015 at Ankara University in Turkey. The session, which has been organized
as part of the UNESCAP Time Use Data Analysis project, began with a presentation by
Phanwin Yokying of American University and Budsara Sangaroon of Thailand’s
National Statistical Office on “Unpaid Work and Work-Life Balance: Lessons from
Thailand.” This was followed by Caryn Bruyere’s presentation on “Bargaining Power
and the Household Division of Labor by Gender: Evidence from China’s National Time
Use Survey of 2008”. The session continued with Mungunsuvd Terbish’s presentation on
the analysis of Mongolia national time use data, which examines the relationship between
infrastructure and time allocation on domestic work of women and men.
The papers received constructive questions and useful feedback from the audience, who
are distinguished scholars in the field of time use research. The opportunity to work with
the countries’ national statistics offices and to present at the conference has been
invaluable to the doctoral students’ research experience. This experience has also helped
these talented students develop their skills in presenting their work to important scholars
in their field. Ms. Bruyere, Terbish and Yokying viewed their conference attendance to
be a highly beneficial experience in terms of deepening their interest in and
understanding of time use research to address development concerns and policy issues.
A complete conference program can be found at:
http://iatur2015.org/index.php/programme