Policymakers advocating for later school starting times argue that increased sleep duration may generate important … schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the relationship … between sleep duration and academic performance, while carefully controlling for difficult-to-measure characteristics at the …

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 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 …

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 …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …