10.17889/E110688V1
Pallais, Amanda
Mas, Alexandre
Replication data for: Labor Supply and the Value of Non-work Time: Experimental Estimates from the Field
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2019
10.1257/aeri.20180070
10.1257/aeri.20180070
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We estimate the marginal value of non-work time (MVT) using a field experiment. We offered job applicants randomized wage-hour bundles. Choices over these bundles yield estimates of the MVT as a function of hours, tracing out a labor supply relationship. The substitution effect is positive. Individual labor supply is highly elastic at low hours and more inelastic at higher hours. For unemployed applicants, our preferred estimate of the average opportunity cost of a full-time job due to lost leisure and household production is 60 percent of after-tax marginal product, and 72 percent when including fixed costs of employment and child-care costs.