This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the … South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market … provides insights into market behaviour and physical and mental health. Household composition and leisure consumption are …

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in … order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects …. Finally, partners coordinate their work schedules in order to have more joint leisure time, which is evidence for togetherness …

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their … spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use … but we show that a large fraction of them substitute a day of unpaid leisure for a day of paid work whenever their spouse …

leisure time together. For these individuals it then pays off to synchronize work times with their partners. This paper tests …

document three main results. First, time allocated to leisure increased and to work decreased among more remote jobs with no … in leisure was not driven by a quiet quitting' phenomenon …

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

not changed considerably. Demographics, amount of leisure, and other factors all have contributed to changes over time …

main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …