| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25199 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25199 |
| Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use | |
| Jeehoon Han; Bruce D. Meyer; James X. Sullivan | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-10-29 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys stretching from 1975 to 2016. We show that individual and family characteristics, especially when including work hours, explain most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use these characteristics to predict the distribution of leisure in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, a survey that also provides detailed information on consumption. The advantage of this approach is that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure time is highest for families at the bottom of the consumption distribution, and typically declines monotonically as consumption rises. However, the consumption-leisure gradient is small. We find noticeable differences across family types, with the gradient being largest for single parent families and single individuals and smallest for families with a head age 65 or older. Overall, these results indicate that including both leisure and consumption, as opposed to just consumption, in a measure of economic well-being will result in less inequality. However, because the consumption-leisure gradient is not very steep, the dampening effect of leisure on overall inequality is small. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25199 |
| 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/582873 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeehoon Han,Bruce D. Meyer,James X. Sullivan. Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use. 2018. |
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