via CentrePiece (Summer 2017)
The effects of sleep deprivation on economic activity have
received surprisingly scant attention. Joan Costa-i-Font
and Sarah Flèche use data on 14,000 families in the UK
to investigate the link between mothers’ employment
outcomes and their quality of sleep, measured by how
often they are woken by their children at night.
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Any parent/carer of young children, and possibly the not-so-young, will empathise with the findings of this research.
By coincidence I have recently been reading an article from The New York Times (February 2017) which tells us that sleep is to allow us to forget, a time to allow the brain to reset itself.
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