Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades

Clicks: 3
ID: 299067
2007
Free PDF
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Emerging

Ranked #374 of 441 articles by views in the quarterly journal of economics

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 441 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time within the United States. We find that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked between 1965 and 2003. Specifically, using a variety of definitions for leisure, we show that leisure for men increased by roughly six to nine hours per week (driven by a decline in market work hours) and for women by roughly four to eight hours per week (driven by a decline in home production work hours). Lastly, we document a growing inequality in leisure that is the mirror image of the growing inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete.
Reference Key
openalex_W3121642453 Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Mark Aguiar, Erik Hurst
Journal the quarterly journal of economics
Year 2007
DOI
10.1162/qjec.122.3.969
URL
https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.122.3.969
Keywords Keywords not found

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.