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Temperature and the Allocation of Time : Implications for Climate Change
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 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...
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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/10012463663
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No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity
Mullahy, John - 2008
Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in preferences and constraints. In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes by increasing levels of physical activity. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464134
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The Increase in Leisure Inequality
Aguiar, Mark - 2008
This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464809
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Time Use During Recessions
Aguiar, Mark A. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461398
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Access and Exposure to Local News Media in the Digital Era : Evidence from U.S. Media Markets
Bang, Minji; L'Heudé, Lucie; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using a new comprehensive survey of adults in large U.S. media markets we show that minority and low-skill individuals, who are heavily exposed to shocks to the local economy, typically have stronger preferences for and stronger ex- posure to local news than high-skill and white individuals. At...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322823
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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 …
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Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them : An Application to the Internet
Goolsbee, Austan - 2006
welfare gains highly uncertain. We show that for time-intensive goods like the Internet, a simple model in which both … use and the opportunity cost of people's time (i.e., the wage). The theory predicts that higher wage internet subscribers …. Based on expenditure and time use data and our elasticity estimate, we calculate that consumer surplus from the Internet may …
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Physical Activity : Economic and Policy Factors
McInnes, Melayne M. - 2009
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/10012463610
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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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