I will sleep when I am dead? Sleep and self-employment

Marcus T. Wolfe () and Pankaj C. Patel ()
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Marcus T. Wolfe: University of Oklahoma
Pankaj C. Patel: Villanova University

Small Business Economics, 2020, vol. 55, issue 4, No 3, 917 pages

Abstract: Abstract Anecdotal evidence suggests that entrepreneurs report fewer hours of sleep. However, in samples of 12,086 individuals in the 2012 and 2014 cross-sections of The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and 47,851 individuals in the 2013–2016 National Health Interview Sample cross-sections, our results indicate that self-employed individuals report more sleep. The results in these two samples further show that psychological distress mediates the relationship between self-employment and lower self-reported sleep time and poorer sleep quality. In the third sample of 7714 individuals in waves 1 and 4 of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey, self-employed individuals reporting increase in sleep from wave 1 to wave 4 also reported a very small increase in monthly gross income, indicating limited, if any, gains to income from increasing sleep hours.

Keywords: Psychological distress; Self-employment; Sleep (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I32 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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