Measures of households’ past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions are conceptually difficult. Answering them requires elaborate...

This paper examines ways that families use time to shape their children’s health behaviors. Specifically, it explores ways that parents can prepare children to make health-enhancing choices as adults. It also analyzes ways that offspring manage their time during young adulthood, when they are...

This paper investigates the link between disability and subjective wellbeing, using data from the 2009 Disability and Use of Time supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the longest running national panel study in the United States. Disability is construed broadly to include both the...

Duration-based measures of happiness from retrospectively constructed daily diaries are gaining in popularity in population-based studies of the hedonic experience. Yet experimental evidence suggests that perceptions of duration—how long an event lasts—are influenced by individuals’...

Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über verbesserte Methoden, neue Basisdaten und Ergebnisse der Generalrevision 2024 der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen für den Zeitraum 1991 bis 2023. Er stellt die wichtigsten Revisionsänderungen und ihre Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaftsbereiche...