home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …%. -- children ; time costs ; leisure …

dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that leisure for men increased by 6?8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. We also find …

couples. The major aim is to solve the endogeneity resulting from individual preferences for work and leisure to identify the … are still family friendly. -- Time Use ; Time Allocation ; Family Economics ; Flexibility ; Synchronization ; Leisure …

watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …