Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in … human capital allocate time to physically-demanding activities that we characterize as health-producing behaviors. Our data … are drawn from multiple years of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which are based on daily time use diaries and …

households' opportunity cost of time. Using the estimated cost of time and time use data, we estimate a high elasticity of … substitution between market expenditure and time spent on non-market work. We find that households smooth a sizable fraction of … consumption by varying their time allocation during recessions …

unique survey questions that ask respondents to detail the amount of time spent performing People, Information, and Objects … a significant role. Shifting 10 percent of work time from low skilled people tasks to high skilled information tasks …

The American Time Use Survey 2003-15, the French Enquête Emploi du Temps, 2009-10, and the German … Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than … ever before. We identify income effects on time use by non-workers, showing that relatively time-intensive commodities …

-market time" (or "home time") can rest on two assumptions: (a.) the two elements react similarly to changes in the socio … assumptions holds. Recent time budget findings have established that work at home is affected differently by changes in …

attainment produce differences in time costs that in turn alter the kinds and variety of activities in which household members … engage. Using time-budget surveys from Australia, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and West Germany from …

What are the fundamental driving forces of macroeconomic fluctuations? In particular, why do people spend more time …

constraint. The innovation in our work is to assume that some or all of non market time is used to regenerate the productivity of …

Sleep must be considered subject to choice and affected by the same economic variables that affect other uses of time … that increases in time spent in the labor market reduce sleep time. Each additional hour of market work reduces sleep by … roughly 10 minutes (and waking nonmarket time by 50 minutes). The total time available for work and leisure is thus itself …