' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school districts have moved to later start times for … high schools based on the prospect that this would increase students' sleep and academic achievement. This paper examines … the effect of high school start times on student learning. We use longitudinal data from the Child Development Supplement …

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 …

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … over 16 years, we first document that children sleep significantly less on days with longer daylight duration, partly by … going to sleep later and waking up earlier. We then exploit variations in local daily daylight duration measured on …

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily … employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a significant correlation between daylight duration and sleep … patterns. Our findings reveal that days with longer daylight hours are associated with a decrease in total sleep duration …

This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children … weather conditions have little impact on children's sleep time or the time allocation of their parents. We also find …

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be … same. More specifically, utility maximization with respect to sleep satisfies Hotelling’s rule on the optimal utilization …-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …

effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …

evidence of an effect on the readiness to enter school. …