Time Use and Health

Principal Investigator: Prof. John Mullahy

 

In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes by increasing levels of physical activity. This line of research explores how individuals endowed with different levels of human capital allocate time to activities that are characterized as health-producing behaviors. Since time use categories are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, novel econometric share equation techniques to enforce the adding-up requirement that time use is constrained to 1,440 minutes per day are designed and implemented. Some of this research is undertaken in collaboration with Prof. Stephanie Robert.