| Titre : | Gender Differences: The Roles of Travel and Time Use in Subjective Well-Being. |
| Partie : | RDC Working Paper No. 64 |
| Auteurs : | M.N. SWEET ; P.S. KANAROGLOU ; McMaster University. Hamilton ON. CAN |
| Type de document : | Document de travail |
| Editeur : | Hamilton : McMaster University, 2015 |
| Format : | (29p)., tabl., fig. |
| Note générale : | Référence : réf bibl. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] Démographie > Population > Sexe [BDSP5] Economie descriptive > Secteur économique > Secteur tertiaire > Transport [BDSP5] Etudes méthodes et statistiques [NI] > Méthodologie > Statistique > Technique mesure > Enquête [BDSP5] Géographie politique > Monde > Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Canada [BDSP5] Sciences éducation > Pédagogie > Evaluation des connaissances > Autoévaluation [BDSP5] Sociologie > Société > Comportement social > Participation communautaire [BDSP5] Sociologie > Société > Condition vie > Qualité vie > Bien être [BDSP5] Sociologie > Société > Vie sociale > Vie quotidienne > Loisir |
| Résumé : | This research employs time use data from the Canadian General Social Survey of 2010 to explore the links between travel, activity participation, and subjective well-being. Policymakers regularly advocate for better life quality, but research on this topic has been more nascent. In this study, structural equation models are estimated to identify links between daily travel times, time use, and subjective well-being (SWB), the extent to which the overall quality of life is positively assessed. Models are estimated independently for men and for women and results suggest important gender differences in how targeting travel and time use outcomes could improve SWB. Results provide evidence that quality of life outcomes could be improved more significantly by shifting policy objectives from conventional travel time savings towards activity participation. While travel time savings feature in transportation policy debates, findings from this study indicate that daily travel times are unassociated with SWB among either gender. But while employed women participate in more time-use incidents per day than employed men, study findings indicate that participating in more activities is linked with greater SWB among women, but not among men. Using shadow prices of SWB to monetize the value of participating in additional activities, results suggest that modest increases can create valuable SWB-related benefits for women. These marginal benefits are highest for those women currently engaging in few activities and for those from high-income households. |
| En ligne : | http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/rdc/RDCwp64.pdf |