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Recent research documents increasing income inequality in the
United States in particular, a widening gap between well-educated
and less-educated American workers. But income is not the sole
measure of prosperity. The amount of time Americans spend in
leisure is also crucial to our understanding of American
well-being, changes in well-being over time, and differences in
well-being among citizens. This meticulously-researched monograph
examines trends in leisure inequality to present a more complete
picture of prosperity in America. Using data spanning forty years
and tens of thousands of survey respondents, Mark Aguiar and Erik
Hurst seek to answer several key questions about leisure
inequality: How much has the leisure time of the average American
increased or decreased over the last several decades? What
increases or decreases in leisure time are seen across groups with
different levels of education, and to what extent do educational
differences in employment status account for these changes? That
is, if workers with relatively little education are less likely to
be employed today than twenty years ago, does that explain an
increase in their leisure relative to more-educated workers? Aguiar
and Hurst find that the leisure time of the average American has
risen by about four hours per week since the mid-1960s. Moreover,
the leisure gap between the less educated and more educated has
widened, as leisure time has increased by eight hours for Americans
without a high school diploma and decreased by six hours for
college-educated Americans. What accounts for this puzzling
divergence? Understanding the forces that drive increasing leisure
inequality could have important implications for American
employment policy.
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