The Allocation of Time in Sleep: A Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Eleonora Patacchini, Xiaodong Liu and Edoardo Rainone

No 162, Center for Policy Research Working Papers from Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Abstract: We analyze peer effects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee (2013a) to estimate network models with sampled observations on the dependent variable. When accounting for sampling, we find that the sleeping behavior of the friends is important to shape own sleeping behavior, besides the impact of individual, family and friend characteristics.

Keywords: Health; Social Interactions; Time Use; Siblings; Spatial Autoregressive Model; Missing Data; Nonlinear Least Squares (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C21 I15 I19 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2013-11
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