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 …

.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have … now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated individuals.  What are the implications for evaluating individual … welfare?  This paper moves beyond the current published research, which has mostly concentrated on total time spent in leisure …

) 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 …

couples. The major aim is to solve the endogeneity resulting from individual preferences for work and leisure to identify the …

.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 …