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fractions of work are performed at night and on weekends. -- Labor demand ; time use ; wage penalty …
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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coordinating work schedules across a large country -- that can alter timing. Using the American Time Use Survey for 2003 and 2004 … exogenous shock to time in one area leads its residents to alter their work schedules to coordinate more closely with people … elsewhere. We then show that both television timing and the benefits of coordinating across time zones in the U.S. generally …
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans … report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time …. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates (price of time) will lead to substitution of grazing for primary eating …
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