| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14513 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14513 |
| No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity | |
| John Mullahy; Stephanie A. Robert | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-11-21 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in preferences and constraints. In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes by increasing levels of physical activity. In this paper, we explore how individuals endowed with different levels of 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 include information on detailed physical activity time uses. Since ATUS time use categories are mutually exclusive and exhaustive -- i.e. "multitasking" is not accommodated -- we employ a novel econometric share equation techniques to enforce the adding-up requirement that time use is constrained to 1,440 minutes per day. We find that differential human capital endowments result in different manifestations of how time is used to produce health. While more-educated individuals, e.g., sleep much less than less-educated individuals, they utilize some of the time so liberated to exercise and work more. We find as well that various features of individuals' environments, broadly defined, play important roles in time allocation decisions. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14513 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572188 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John Mullahy,Stephanie A. Robert. No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity. 2008. |
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