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 …

that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …

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 …

watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …

costs of remaining in the labor market that alter the pattern of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly …

dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult …) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, we document that leisure for men increased by 6-8 hours per week (driven by a decline in … leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10 weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40-hour work week. We also find …

market work hours, home work hours (household chores), commute and leisure times in Brazil along 2001-2015. Analysis is made … by gender and is based on the National Household Survey (PNAD). Results show that men enjoy more time of leisure than … women, although this difference is reducing over time. For both men and women, there is an increase in leisure time …

over the last thirty years. Adjusting for changing demographics, we find that leisure time across countries has converged … over this period. Specifically, leisure time has declined five to eight hours in countries with high leisure levels thirty … years ago and has increased around one hour in the other countries. For men the reduction in leisure was driven by an …

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 …