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Ramey, Valerie A.; Francis, Neville - 2021

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 the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...

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Less of a Luxury : The Rise of Recreation Since 1888

Costa, Dora L. - 2022

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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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...

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Taxing Leisure Complements

Kaplow, Louis - 2008

Ever since Corlett and Hague (1953), it has been understood that it tends to be optimal on second-best grounds to (relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of taxation on labor supply. Yet in the context of...

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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

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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Effects of Title Ix and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

In this study, we examined the association between girls%u2019 participation in high school sports and the physical … activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls%u2019 sports participation … sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunities for adolescent females, were associated with an increase in physical …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...

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Togetherness : Spouses' Synchronous Leisure, and the Impact of Children

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022

This study goes beyond the immense literature on the quantity of labor that households supply to examine the timing of their labor/leisure choices. Using two-year panels from the United States in the 1970s it demonstrates that couples prefer to consume leisure simultaneously: Synchronization is...

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