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Erik Hurst, associate professor of Economics and the John Huizinga Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Graduate School and co-author of the study, "Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of TIme over Five Decades" (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston working paper)
- found Americans have more leisure time today
» Erik Hurst bio
and
Ellen Galinsky, President and co-founder of Families and Work Institute,
- says Americans feel more overworked than ever
» “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades” from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (opens a PDF)
» List of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Papers
» "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" executive summary (opens a PDF)
» Ellen Galinsky bio
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