economics, psychology, policy

They might attend their lectures, do additional hours of study and get good grades; but... what are students learning in college? A recent a...

RSA's animation of a Philip Zimbardo lecture on how perceptions of and attitudes to time affect behaviour.

I discussed student time use with one of my professors several weeks ago. He mentioned the importance of considering how time is allocated a...

New figures suggest that irish people are the most miserable in Europe. Apparently, we spend the equivalent of more than a working day -- ni...

Your attention is a scarce resource. In the Information Economy , this is more critical than ever. Before I elaborate on the economics of at...

Marie Connolly (Princeton) has a paper in the Journal of Labor Economics ( 2008, vol. 26, no. 1 ) about the weather and intertemporal substi...

The Chicago Journals website provides a useful summary ( here ) of a recent paper in the Journal of Labour Economics: Hamermesh, Daniel S., ...

Kooreman and Kapteyn (1987) note that time not spent on market work has traditionally been disaggregated into two distinct categories: time...