IZA Topic Week: Nonmarket Time in Economics

Wednesday, May 30:

09:15	-	10:15		Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin, Royal Holloway and IZA), Michael Burda (Humboldt University and IZA), Philippe Weil (ECARES, Free University of Brussels)
				"Total Work, Gender and Social Norms"
10:15	-	10:30		Coffee Break
10:30	-	11:30		Norbert Neuwirth (University of Vienna)
				"Determinants of Activities within the Family"
11:30	-	12:30		Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA)
				"Bargaining Power and Intra-Household Time Allocation in Rural China – Using Gender of the Child as a Natural Experiment"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	14:30		Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College and IZA), Jean Kimmel (Western Michigan University and IZA)
				"Spousal Influences on Parents’ Non-Market Time Choices"
14:30	-	15:30		Lindsay M. Tedds (University of Manitoba), Adian McFarlane (University of Manitoba)
				"Work, Rest, and Play: Exploring Trends in Time Allocation in Canada and the United States"
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
15:45	-	16:45		Scott M. Fuess, Jr. (University of Nebraska at Lincoln and IZA)
				"Leisure Time in Japan: How Much and for Whom?"

Thursday, May 31:

09:00	-	12:00		Work Among Participants
12:00	-	14:00		Lunch Keynote Lecture Joachim Merz (University of Lueneburg and IZA) "Daily Nonmarket and Market Activities - Three Examples of Time Diary Analysis: Working Hours Arrangements, Demand for Services, and Benefits of Public Holidays"
14:00	-	15:00		Marie Connolly (University of Québec at Montréal)
				"A Look at the U.S. Welfare Reform Through Time-Use Surveys"
15:00	-	16:00		Younghwan Song (Union College)
				"Time Preference and Time Use: Do Smokers Exercise Less?"
16:00	-	16:30		Georgios Tassoukis (IZA) 'German Time Use Data'
16:45	-	17:00		Shuttle to the 'Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'
17:00	-	18:30		Guided tour of the "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" exhibition
19:00				Shuttle to Bonn Center

Friday, June 01:

09:00	-	12:00		Work Among Participants
12:00	-	14:00		Lunch Keynote Lecture Robert Pollak (Washington University and IZA) "Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies and Household Technology"
14:00	-	15:00		Anzelika Zaiceva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, University of Bonn, DIW Berlin and CEPR)
				"Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?"
15:00	-	16:00		Sara Helms (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Katharine Abraham (University of Maryland), Stanley Presser (University of Maryland)
				"The Effects of Survey Nonresponse on Inferences about Volunteer Work in the United States"
16:00	-	18:00		Work Among Participants
18:30				Leaving IZA to Ferry 'Rheinnixe'
19:00				Conference Dinner at the Chinese Boat-Restaurant 'Ocean Paradise'

Saturday, June 02:

09:15	-	10:15		Elsa Fontainha (Technical University of Lisbon)
				"After the School Day Is Over: Studying versus Socializing; A Cross-Country Comparison of Students Time Allocation"
10:15	-	10:30		Coffee Break
10:30	-	11:30		Killian Mullan (ISER, University of Essex)
				"A Valuation of Childcare Produced by Households in the United Kingdom: inputs and outputs"
11:30	-	12:30		Charlene M. Kalenkoski (Ohio University and IZA), David C. Ribar (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Leslie S. Stratton (Virginia Commonwealth University)
				"How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	14:30		Vimal Ranchhod (University of Cape Town), Martin Wittenberg (University of Cape Town)
				"Income Effects of Time Allocation in Poor South African Households: Evidence from South Africa's Old Age Pension"
14:30	-	15:30		Jay Stewart (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and IZA)
				"How Does Employment Affect the Timing of Time with Children?"
15:30				Coffee