No time to lose: Time constraints and physical activity in the production of health

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-432

  Mullahy, John ^a,b   Robert, Stephanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health production; Physical activity; Time use

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249278451     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-010-9091-4     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Aguiar, M., & Hurst, E. (2008). The increase in leisure inequality. NBER w. p. 13837.
2. Becker, G. S. (1965). A theory of the allocation of time. Economic Journal, 75, 493-517.
3. Berry, B. (2007). Disparities in free time inactivity in the United States: Trends and explanations. Sociological Perspectives, 50, 177-208.
4. Biddle, J. E., & Hamermesh, D. S. (1990). Sleep and the allocation of time. Journal of Political Economy, 98, 922-943.
5. Bloemen, H. G., Pasqua, S., & Stancanelli G. F. (2010). An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: Are they responsive? Review of Economics of the Household. doi: 10. 1007/s11150-009-9083-4.
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2008). Prevalence of self-reported physically active adults-United States, 2007. MMWR, 57(48), 1297-1300.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009). Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. MMWR 58 (No. RR-7).
8. Chen, Z., Roy, K., Haddix, A. C., & Thacker, S. B. (2009). Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States. Health Policy, 94(3), 203-210.
9. Connelly, R., & Kimmel, J. (2009). Spousal influences on parents' non-market time. Review of Economics of the Household, 7, 361-394.
10. Connolly, M. (2008). Here comes the rain again: Weather and the intertemporal substitution of leisure. Journal of Labor Economics, 26, 73-100.
11. Cotterman, R., & Peracchi, F. (1992). Classification and aggregation: An application to industrial classification in CPS data. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 7, 31-51.
12. Cramer, J. S., & Ridder, G. (1991). Pooling states in the multinomial logit model. Journal of Econometrics, 47, 267-272.
13. Crane, J. (1991). The epidemic theory of ghettos and neighborhood effects on dropping out and teenage childbearing. American Journal of Sociology, 96, 1226-1259.
14. Crawford, D. L., et al. (1998). Simple inference in multinomial and ordered logit. Econometric Reviews, 17, 289-299.
15. Cutler, D. M., Glaeser, E. L., & Shapiro, J. M. (2003). Why have Americans become more obese? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17, 93-118.
16. Datta Gupta, N., & Stratton, L. S. (2010). Examining the impact of alternative power measures on individual time use in American and Danish couple households. Review of Economics of the Household. doi: 10. 1007/s11150-009-9073-6.
17. Field, C. A., & Welsh, A. H. (2007). Bootstrapping clustered data. JRSS-B 69: 369-390.
18. Granovetter, M. (1978). Threshold models of collective behavior. American Journal of Sociology, 83, 1420-1443.
19. Grossman, M. (1972). On the concept of health capital and the demand for health. Journal of Political Economy, 80, 225-255.
20. Hamermesh, D. S. (2005). Routine. European Economic Review, 49, 29-53.
21. Hamermesh, D. S., & Pfann, G. A. (2005). The economics of time use. Contributions to economic analysis 271. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
22. Hansen, B. (2008). Econometrics. Textbook manuscript, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (http://www. ssc. wisc. edu/~bhansen/econometrics/).
23. Heckman, J. J. (1980). Sample selection bias as a specification error with an application to the estimation of labor supply functions. In J. Smith (Ed.), Female labor supply: Theory and estimation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
24. Hill, M. A. (1983). Female labor force participation in developing and developed countries: Consideration of the informal sector. Review of Economics and Statistics, 65, 459-468.
25. Juster, F. T., & Stafford, F. P. (1991). The allocation of time: Empirical findings, behavioral models, and problems of measurement. Journal of Economic Literature, 29, 471-522.
26. Kimmel, J., & Connelly, R. (2007). Mothers' time choices: Caregiving, leisure, home production, and paid work. Journal of Human Resources, 42, 643-681.
27. Kooreman, P., & Kapteyn, A. (1987). A disaggregated analysis of the allocation of time within the household. Journal of Political Economy, 95, 223-249.
28. Leibowitz, A. (2004). The demand for health and health concerns after 30 years. Journal of Health Economics, 23, 663-671.
29. Lovasi, G. S., Hutson, M. A., Guerra, M., & Neckerman, K. M. (2009). Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations. Epidemiologic Reviews, 31, 7-20.
30. McElroy, M. B. (1987). Additive general error models for production, cost, and derived demand or share systems. Journal of Political Economy, 95, 737-757.
31. Meghir, C., & Robin, J.-M. (1992). Frequency of purchase and the estimation of demand systems. Journal of Econometrics, 53, 53-85.
32. Mullahy, J. (2007). Squandering time? An econometric analysis of youth time use. Working paper.
33. Papke, L. E., & Wooldridge, J. M. (1996). Econometric methods for fractional response variables with an application to 401 (K) plan participation rates. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11, 619-632.
34. Philipson, T., & Posner, R. (2008). Is the obesity epidemic a public health problem? A decade of research on the economics of obesity. NBER w. p. 14010.
35. Poterba, J. M., & Samwick, A. A. (2002). Taxation, household portfolio composition: U. S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of Public Economics, 87, 5-38.
36. Robin, J.-M. (1993). Econometric analysis of the short-run fluctuations of households' purchases. Review of Economic Studies, 60, 923-934.
37. Russell, L. B., et al. (2007). Health-related activities in the American time use survey. Medical Care, 45, 680-685.
38. Sallis, J. F., & Owen, N. (1999). Physical activity and behavioral medicine. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
39. Sari, N. (2009). Physical inactivity and its impact on healthcare utilization. Health Economics, 18, 885-901.
40. US Department of Health and Human Services. (1996). Physical activity and health: report of the surgeon general. Atlanta, GA, US: Department of Health and Human Services, CDC.
41. Wales, T. J., & Woodland, A. D. (1977). Estimation of the allocation of time for work, leisure, and housework. Econometrica, 45, 115-132.
42. Wolin, K. Y., et al. (2008). Low discretionary time as a barrier to physical activity and intervention uptake. American Journal of Health Behavior, 32, 563-569.
43. Woodland, A. D. (1979). Stochastic specification and the estimation of share equations. Journal of Econometrics, 10, 361-383.