@inbook{f7d4443f3c2443318c9280a016efed07,
title = "TIME-USE AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: IS DIVERSITY REALLY THE SPICE OF LIFE?",
abstract = "Using the American and the French time-use surveys, we examine whether people have a preference for a more diversified mix of activities, in the sense that they experience greater well-being when their time schedule contains many different activities rather than is concentrated on a very small number. This could be due to decreasing marginal utility, as is assumed for goods consumption, if each episode of time is conceived as yielding a certain level of utility per se. With returns to specialization, people would then face a trade-off between efficiency and diversity in choosing how to allocate time. We examine these issues and investigate potential gender differences, considering both instantaneous feelings and life satisfaction.",
keywords = "Time allocation, gender, life satisfaction, momentary utility, subjective well-being, time-use diversity",
author = "Naomi Friedman-Sokuler and Claudia Senik",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 by Emerald Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1108/S0147-912120230000051001",
language = "English",
series = "Research in Labor Economics",
publisher = "Emerald Publishing",
pages = "1--33",
booktitle = "Research in Labor Economics",
address = "United Kingdom",
}