We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students … from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an … alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate tests, one of which to be taken under time pressure. Both exam schemes …

that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including … welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The effects of time limits depend on the stock of remaining months of … eligibility, which in turn depends on the state time limit and on family's welfare use since the policy was implemented. Since the …

due to unequal allocation of the particular resource represented by maternal quality time. OLS regressions show that the … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the … quality time received …

Most activities in life require a certain amount of continuous time. Yet, in the traditional economic model of time … allocation, the time block is not taken into account. Hence, the same amount of utility is derived from an activity regardless of … whether it is performed continuously over one time block or divided into n separated periods. This paper presents an extension …

potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children …

How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous …. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we estimate the probability that an individual would have been … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …