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100 _a Lentz, Erin
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245 _aThe Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
260 _bWiley,
_c2019.
300 _aVol.50, Issue 2,2019:(301-328 p.)
520 _aAlmost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development — from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy — has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a ‘black box’, with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. In this context, there has been increasing interest in time use studies as a way to peer inside this black box. This article offers a review of methods and identifies some of the difficulties facing time use studies in capturing intrahousehold dynamics, and presents the results of a two‐season simultaneous activity time use study in Malawi which aimed to address these difficulties. The results suggest significant limitations to time use surveys. The kinds of reproductive labour that often interest researchers may be invisible to the women responding to time use surveys, with the result that care work is dramatically under‐reported. The authors discuss the implications of the divergence between researchers’ concerns and the women's reports of their lives for time use surveys, and for feminist development research methods more broadly.
700 _aKerr , Rachel Bezner
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700 _aPatel, Raj
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700 _aDakishoni, Laifolo
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700 _aLupafya, Esther
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773 0 _08737
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_dWest Sussex John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1970
_tDevelopment and change
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856 _u https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12426
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