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School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to … American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine two factors that can potentially influence the amount of time children sleep: school … and maternal employment. I find that school-age children sleep less when school is in session than during the summer, and …
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School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to … American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine two factors that can potentially influence the amount of time children sleep: school … and maternal employment. I find that school-age children sleep less when school is in session than during the summer, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751645
This paper examines the economic determinants of participation in physical activity by developing and analyzing a consumer choice model of participation and by testing the predictions of this model using data drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS). Both emphasize that...
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nature of sleep time and show that for both men and women, sleep time decreases when the economy is doing relatively better …. Our results suggest that in a recession Canadians sleep an average of 2 hours and 34 minutes more per week, or 22 minutes … more per day. Given the importance of even small changes in sleep time on measures of cognitive functioning such as …
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-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 ?40 years … and sleep duration are affected by unemployment, while there are no observed effects on dietary habits, smoking, and … frequency of drinking. Being unemployed has positive effects on frequency of exercise and sleep duration. When an individual …
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Research has shown that birth weight has a lasting impact on adult outcomes such as education and earnings. This paper examines the role of nutritional intake in utero on academic achievement in childhood, which may provide a link between birth weight and adult outcomes, and further investigates...
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on three mutually exclusive ones: school, housework and work. The originality of this paper is to highlight the …
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compulsory as well as upper sec-ondary school. The results show that there is a positive relationship between parental income and …, whereas significant effects of the hours of work that the father puts in are found during upper secondary school only. Paper …
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In this paper, data from Statistics Sweden about students entering upper secondary school (10th grade) in 1994 and …
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This article focus on the trade-off between work and informal care among women aged 50 to 65. We first specify a simple time allocation model assuming a substitution between the two activities trough the time constraint but also a complementarity trough the agent’s preferences. From the two...
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