affiliation. When it comes to more or less active ways of participating in cultural activities, leisure has a significant impact … the likelihood of being more or less happy in relation to different types of leisure activities. Our approach has the …

) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …

utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …

.75 hours per week in Canada, but in the U.S it remained relatively stable, and (3) over the sample period, leisure time … increased in the U.S., but fell in Canada. In addition, the least educated enjoy more leisure relative to the most highly …