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work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and …
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with …
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College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non … socioeconomic variables than is leisure, and this paper shows that the aggregation is also suspect from the analytical point of view …
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This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys … most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use these characteristics to predict the distribution of leisure in the … that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure …
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Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...
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-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this … increase in leisure inequality, particularly for men. Over the last 20 years, less educated men increased the time they … allocated to leisure while more educated men recorded a decrease in leisure time. While the relative decline in the employment …
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Most economic models for time allocation ignore constraints on what people can actually do with their time. Economists recently have emphasized the importance of considering prior consumption commitments that constrain behavior. This research develops a new model for time valuation that uses...
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-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly increasing time devoted to household production. Similar results are found using …
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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 … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. Alternatively …
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