Arbeitspapier
Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?
This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do not find much evidence that population health significantly decreases when clocks are set forth by one hour in spring. However, when clocks are set back by one hour in fall, effectively extending sleep duration for the sleep deprived by one hour, population health slightly improves for about four days. The most likely explanation for the asymmetric effects are behavioral adjustments by marginal people in spring.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9088
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Thema
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Daylight Saving Time (DST)
BRFSS
hospital admissions
sleep deprivation
Germany
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Jin, Lawrence
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Jin, Lawrence
- Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015