Time Use and Labor Productivity: The Returns to Sleep
Time Use and Labor Productivity: The Returns to Sleep
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DOI：
10.1162/rest_a_00746
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Shrader, Jeffrey
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作者：
Gibson, Matthew;Shrader, Jeffrey
我们调查了如何最大限度地利用时间休假影响生产力。来自美国的时间使用数据使我们能够测试睡眠提高生产力的模型。与理论一致，我们发现睡眠对家庭生产的补充作用大于对失业者的休闲作用。然后，我们表明，晚日落时间减少工人的睡眠和收入。排除替代假设后，我们实施了一个工具变量规范，提供了睡眠对收入的影响的因果估计。每周平均睡眠时间增加1小时，短期内收入增加1.1%，长期增加5%。
We investigate how the largest use of timesleepaffects productivity. Time use data from the United States allow us to test a model in which sleep improves productivity. Consistent with theory, we find sleep is more complementary to home production than to leisure for nonemployed individuals. We then show that later sunset time reduces worker sleep and earnings. After ruling out alternative hypotheses, we implement an instrumental variables specification that provides causal estimates of the impact of sleep on earnings. A 1-hour increase in location-average weekly sleep increases earnings by 1.1% in the short run and 5% in the long run.