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(relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of …, Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) claim to have demonstrated the opposite, that goods complementary with leisure should "face lower … optimality of relatively taxing leisure complements is indeed correct, and conflicting results are explained …
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per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the … for the changing price of leisure faced by these groups over time. We then construct a macroeconomic model with general … that a large part of the decline in hours worked can be explained by the declining price of leisure. In contrast, we find …
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Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we … develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for …. Finally, leisure per capita is approximately the same now as it was in 1900 …
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I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...
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-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this … increase in leisure inequality, particularly for men. Over the last 20 years, less educated men increased the time they … allocated to leisure while more educated men recorded a decrease in leisure time. While the relative decline in the employment …
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industries with high exposure to climate and similarly large decreases in time allocated to outdoor leisure. We also find … of the US, the net impacts on total employment are likely to be small, but significant changes in leisure time as well as …
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While much research has focused on the costs of obesity and economic factors that drive obesity growth, little economic research has examined the factors that contribute to obesity -- physical inactivity and poor nutrition. This paper will examine correlates and predictors of physical activity...
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Leisure activities such as local recreation trips usually take place in discrete blocks of time that are surrounded by …
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Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in preferences and constraints. In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes by increasing levels of physical activity. In this...
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In this study, we examined the association between girls' participation in high school sports and the physical activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls' sports participation was dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found...
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