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Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands

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Jacobsen, Joyce P. (Wesleyan University)
Kooreman, Peter () (University of Groningen and IZA Bonn)

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A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as well as the timing of these activities. We develop a simple structural model to make predictions about the effects of imposition and relaxation of a timing constraint on time use patterns, and utilize time diary data from 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2000 to examine time use patterns by demographic group before and after the change. In addition to a change in the timing of shopping, we find a non-negligible increase in the total time spent shopping.

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Keywords: time allocation; labor supply;

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D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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  1. Bonke, Jens & Gupta, Nabanita Datta & Smith, Nina, 2003. "Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages," IZA Discussion Papers 860, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  4. Elbert Dijkgraaf & Raymond Gradus, 2007. "Explaining Sunday Shop Policies," De Economist, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 207-219, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. E. Dijkgraaf & R.H.J.M. Gradus, . "Deregulating Sunday Shop Policies," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 06-003/3, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
  6. Merz, Joachim & Hanglberger, Dominik & Rucha, Rafael, 2009. "The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services – Multivariate Probit Estimates and Microsimulation Results for an Aged Population with German Time Use Diary Data," MPRA Paper 16303, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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