Dr Man-Yee Kan

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Education and Awards
  • BSocSc, MPhil (Hong Kong); MSc, DPhil (Oxford)
Responsibilities
  • Research Officer, ESRC Gender Equality Network Project 4: Gender, Time Allocation and the "Wage Gap"
Research Interests
  • The household division of labour
  • The gender wage gap
  • Gender dynamics and inequalities in marriage (in the realms of time use, money management, wealth accumulation, and political choice and values)
  • Time use research (including methods of analysing time use data, measurement error, and daily life schedules)
Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Kan, M. Y. & Pudney, S. (August 2008, forthcoming) 'Measurement Error in Stylised and Diary Data on Time Use'. Sociological Methodology. 38.
  • Kan, M. Y. (2007, forthcoming) 'Measuring Housework Participation: the gap between "stylised" questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates'. Social Indicators Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9184-5.
  • Kan, M. Y. (March 2008, forthcoming) 'Does Gender Trump Money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain'. Work, Employment and Society. 22(1), pp. 45-66.
  • Kan, M. Y. (November 2007) 'Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: an evaluation of Hakim's preference theory'. Work and Occupations, 34(4), pp. 430-462.
  • Kan, M. Y. & Heath, A. (February 2006) 'The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives'. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(1), pp. 70-86.

Book Chapters

  • Kan, M. Y. & Gershuny, J. I. (in press) 'Gender and Time Use Over the Life-course'. in M. Brynin & J. Ermisch (eds) Changing Relationships. London: Routledge.

Working Papers

  • Man Yee Kan, Jonathan Gershuny (April 2006) 'Infusing Time Diary Evidence into Panel Data: An exercise in calibrating time-use estimates for the BHPS, 1994-2004'. Working Paper of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2006-19. Colchester: University of Essex
  • Man Yee Kan, Jonathan Gershuny (February 2006) 'Human Capital and Social Position in Britain: creating a measure of wage earning potential from BHPS data, 1991-2004'. Working Paper of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2006-03. Colchester: University of Essex
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