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Time Use During Recessions
Aguiar, Mark - 2013
We use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), covering both the recent recession and the pre-recessionary period, to explore how foregone market work hours are allocated to other activities over the business cycle. Given the short time series, it is hard to distinguish business cycle...
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Short Run Constraints and the Increasing Marginal Value of Time in Recreation
Palmquist, Raymond B. - 2009
Leisure activities such as local recreation trips usually take place in discrete blocks of time that are surrounded by time devoted to other commitments. It can be costly to transfer time between blocks to allow for longer outings. These observations affect the value of time within those blocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159522
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Temperature and the Allocation of Time : Implications for Climate Change
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2010
In this paper we estimate the impacts of climate change on the allocation of time using econometric models that exploit plausibly exogenous variation in daily temperature over time within counties. We find large reductions in U.S. labor supply in industries with high exposure to climate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148102
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The Increase in Leisure Inequality
Aguiar, Mark - 2014
This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005 …
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The Rug Rat Race
Ramey, Garey - 2009
. We provide empirical support for our explanation with a comparison of trends between the U.S. and Canada, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156858
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Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them : An Application to the Internet
Goolsbee, Austan; Klenow, Peter J. - 2022
about 0.2% of consumer spending in the U.S., for example, went for Internet accessin 2004 yet time use data indicates that … like the Internet, a simple model in which both expenditure and time contribute to consumption can be used to estimate the … theory predicts that higher wage internet subscribers should spend less time online (for non-work reasons) and the degree to …
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Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and non-athlete student performance. We find that the team's success significantly reduces male grades relative to female grades. This phenomenon is only present in fall quarters, which coincides with the football season. Using...
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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
Cuffe, Harold E. - 2011
We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...
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Physical Activity : Economic and Policy Factors
McInnes, Melayne Morgan - 2010
correlates and predictors of physical activity over time with emphasis on economic factors. We use data for adults from the 2000-2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152570
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Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
Aguiar, Mark - 2017
Younger men, ages 21 to 30, exhibited a larger decline in work hours over the last fifteen years than older men or women. Since 2004, time-use data show that younger men distinctly shifted their leisure to video gaming and other recreational computer activities. We propose a framework to answer...
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