The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is driven in part by the gender differential in wages....

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

In a randomized controlled trial involving hundreds of university students, we provide relative performance feedback specifically designed to reduce low performers' demoralization, by dynamically assigning students to small leaderboard groups that share a similar score in a semester-long online...

Introduction: the economics of multitasking / Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster -- Economic theories about the allocation of time : review and an extension for multitasking / Raúl G. Sanchis -- Are women better than men at multitasking household production activities? / Charlene M....

This first-of-its-kind volume explores the economic implications of multitasking, with a particular focus on the multitasking of non-market activities such as child care, housework, eating, and studying