An empirical note on commuting distance and sleep during workweek and weekend
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In: Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 70, No. 1, 01.2018, p. 97-102.
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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 -