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Erik Hurst
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 144
Citations - 14797
Erik Hurst is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 138 publications receiving 13118 citations. Previous affiliations of Erik Hurst include National Bureau of Economic Research & Princeton University.
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship
Erik Hurst,Annamaria Lusardi +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that the propensity to become a business owner is a nonlinear function of wealth, and that the relationship between wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is essentially flat over the majority of the wealth distribution.
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Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time and find that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and 2003.
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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional analysis of the American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) showed that time spent with children does not follow patterns typical of leisure or home production, suggesting an important difference.
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Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades
Mark Aguiar,Erik Hurst +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time within the United States and found that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked between 1965 and 2003.
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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that higher-educated parents spend more time with their children; for example, mothers with a college education or greater spend roughly 4.5 hours more per week in child care than mothers with high school degree or less.