Economics of a good night's sleep

Joan Costa-i-Font and Sarah Flèche

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Parents whose sleep quality is reduced by young children waking them in the night are less likely to work, work shorter hours and/or earn less than otherwise similar people who enjoy a good night's sleep. The negative labour market effects of sleep disruption caused by children are particularly strong for low-skilled mothers. These are among the findings of research by Joan Costa-i-Font and Sarah Flèche, which uses data on 14,000 families in and around the city of Bristol in the UK to investigate the link between mothers' employment outcomes and their quality of sleep, measured by how much they are woken by their children at night. The researchers note that before now, the effects of sleep deprivation on economic activity have received surprisingly scant attention.

Keywords: child sleep; sleep; maternal employment; working hours; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J13 J22 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-ltv
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp506.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cep:cepcnp:506

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().