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-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using … time-diary data for Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. Direct estimates of the utility derived from goods consumption …
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Pareto Efficiency is a core assumption of most models of household decision-making. We test this assumption using a new dataset covering the retirement saving contributions of over a million U.S. individuals. While a vast literature has failed to reject household efficiency in developed...
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Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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Kinship structure - how extended families are organized - varies across societies and may have implications for outcomes within the household. A key source of variation in kinship structure is whether lineage and inheritance are traced through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as...
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work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …
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College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …
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This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys … most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use these characteristics to predict the distribution of leisure in the … that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure …
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Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...
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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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