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Research Interests
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Sociology of education, particularly adult educational transitions,
in relation to social class, labour market, civic engagement and household relations.
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Research using time use data on unpaid work, from perspectives of extensions to national
accounts and voluntary/helping behaviour.
Selected Publications
- Cheung, S.Y. and Egerton, M. (forthcoming Spring 2007)
‘Higher Education Expansion and Reform: changing educational inequalities in Great Britain’
book chapter to appear in Stratification in Higher Education: A comparative study
(eds) Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran with Gila Menahem, California: Stanford University Press
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Egerton, M., Fisher, K., Gershuny, J. (with John Robinson and Anne Gauthier).
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.
A Report to the Glazer Foundation, July, 2005 (under review)
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Egerton, M. and Mullan, K. (submitted to British Journal of Sociology)
‘An analysis and monetary valuation of formal and informal voluntary work by gender and educational attainment’
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Gershuny, J. and Egerton, M. (2006)
‘Evidence on participation and participants’ time use from day- and week-long diaries: implications for modelling time use’.
Paper given at the IATUR Conference, August 2006, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen
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Fisher, Kimberly, Muriel Egerton, Jonathan I. Gershuny, and John P. Robinson (forthcoming)
Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS)”
Social Indicators Research; see also ISER Working Paper 2006-25, Colchester, University of Essex.
Curriculum Vitae
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