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  • How Do We Spend Our time?: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
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  • Jean Kimmel, Editor
  • 2008
  • Published by: W.E. Upjohn Institute
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This book offers contributions from a number of noted economists who exploit the American Time Use Survey to reveal findings that have numerous implications for the U.S. labor market. The authors examine topics such as child care, housework, household production and consumption, and shift work. In each case, the focus is on the value of time and how time spent on one activity instead of another represents value gained for the first activity and value lost for the second.

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  1. Front Matter
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. p. v
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-9
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  1. Chapter 1. The Time of Our Lives
  2. pp. 11-30
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  1. Chapter 2. The Value of Unpaid Child Care in the United States in 2003
  2. pp. 31-56
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  1. Chapter 3. Does Housework Continue to Narrow the Income Gap? The Impact of American Housework on Economic Inequality over Time
  2. pp. 57-79
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  1. Chapter 4. Household Production, Consumption, and Retirement
  2. pp. 81-108
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  1. Chapter 5. The Time Use of Nonworking Men
  2. pp. 109-139
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  1. Chapter 6. Day, Evening, and Night Workers: A Comparison of What They Do in Their Nonwork Hours and with Whom They Interact
  2. pp. 141-175
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  1. The Authors
  2. p. 177
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 179-186
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  1. About the Institute
  2. p. 187
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