Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines … 1975 to 2004 shows that changes in "home production" account for at least half of the increase in market hours of work in …

-recessionary period, to explore how foregone market work hours are allocated to other activities over the business cycle. Given the short … roughly 30% to 40% of the foregone market work hours are allocated to increased home production. Additionally, 30% of the … foregone hours are allocated to increased sleep time and increased television watching. Other leisure activities absorb 20% of …

weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the …

dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we show that leisure for men increased by 6-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … market work hours) and for women by 4-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). This increase in …

) margin, rather than the intensive (hours worked) margin. This distinction has important implications for the design of tax …