Using Dutch time-diary data from 1975-2005 covering over 10,000 respondents for 7 consecutive days each, we show that … individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …

This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the … determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …

Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of … Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …

of working full time, as more women, having returned to work, respond to the second birth by moving from full time to … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with … characterized by a combination of higher marginal product of time spent in the production of child quality and higher marginal … product of time relative to the marginal product of other inputs into the production of child quality …

through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for … for individuals who reduce their working time most. After two (four) years for men (women), the positive effects reverse …

and policy changes. This paper develops a semiparametric test for conditional independence in time series models linking a … a time series setting. This leads to a generalized definition of Sims (1980) causality. A technical contribution is the …

This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and …