Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....

Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...

Now that pollution is reaching worrisome levels in some countries and at the global level, there is a growing consensus that it needs to be explicitly considered as a by-product of the production process and incorporated in economic decisions. But this is not easy in the absence of markets and...

Der Deutschen Bahn AG steht zur zeitlichen Entlastung von Fahrgästen neben der Reisedauer mit der Schaffung von Zeitverwendungsmöglichkeiten ein zweiter Gestaltungsparameter zur Verfügung, dessen Existenz darin begründet liegt, dass Reisezeit je nach Zugausstattung und Verhalten von...