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August 1999

Notes on time use

Robert A. Pollak

Time-use data alone are insufficient for estimating household technology and the behavioral relationships that determine the allocation of time among activities; to estimate household technology requires data on all outputs and all inputs, whereas to estimate behavioral relationships requires recognizing the roles of preferences, intrahousehold allocation, and technology

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