Time use – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

Do the Rich or Poor Sleep More?

We sleep and relax an average of 9.84 hours each day More than one-third, 9.84 represents a hefty chunk of our 24-hour day. It reflects our time use tradeoffs. Within countries and between them, the patterns are similar. The rich sleep less. Sleep. When researchers correlated household income and per capita GDP within and between countries, they found similar results. In a typical country, full time top income quartile workers sleep a half hour less than workers in the lowest quartile. Correspondingly, comparing countries, we also see that sleep hours decrease as per capita GDP increases. ….[READ]