Monday 4 September 2017

Economics of a good night’s sleep

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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