Gender, the Home-Work Link, and Space-Time Patterns of Nonemployment ActivitiesFootnote

This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (SBR-9529780) and the Committee on Urban Affairs, Ohio State University. I would like to thank Susan Hanson, Nancy Ettlinger, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of the paper.

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