Replication data for: A Century of Work and Leisure

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Valerie A. Ramey; Neville Francis

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Project Citation: 

Ramey, Valerie A., and Francis, Neville. Replication data for: A Century of Work and Leisure. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114043V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We develop comprehensive measures of time spent in market work, home production, schooling, and leisure in the United States for the last 106 years. We find that hours of work for prime age individuals are essentially unchanged, with the rise in women's hours fully compensating for the decline in men's hours. Hours worked by those 14 to 24 years old have declined noticeably, but most of this decline was offset by a rise in hours spent in school. Overall, per capita leisure and average annual lifetime leisure increased by only four or five hours per week during the last 100 years. (JEL D13, J16, J22)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply


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