TY - JOUR

T1 - An empirical note on commuting distance and sleep during workweek and weekend

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

PY - 2018/1

Y1 - 2018/1

N2 - The author uses six years of large‐scale panel survey data for Germany to analyse the nexus between commuting distance from the place of residence to the workplace and quantity of sleep. Pooled and individual fixed‐effects regressions indicate that workers with longer commuting distance sleep significantly less per night during the workweek, but not less during the weekend. A one kilometer longer commuting distance is on average correlated with 0.0035 (pooled) and 0.0011 (fixed‐effects) hours less sleep per night during the workweek. As commuting seems to affect sleep quantity, it might negatively affect health and time allocation for other leisure activities.

AB - The author uses six years of large‐scale panel survey data for Germany to analyse the nexus between commuting distance from the place of residence to the workplace and quantity of sleep. Pooled and individual fixed‐effects regressions indicate that workers with longer commuting distance sleep significantly less per night during the workweek, but not less during the weekend. A one kilometer longer commuting distance is on average correlated with 0.0035 (pooled) and 0.0011 (fixed‐effects) hours less sleep per night during the workweek. As commuting seems to affect sleep quantity, it might negatively affect health and time allocation for other leisure activities.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019443601&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/boer.12121

DO - 10.1111/boer.12121

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 70

SP - 97

EP - 102

JO - Bulletin of Economic Research

JF - Bulletin of Economic Research

SN - 0307-3378

IS - 1

ER -