Friday, August 1, 2014

"Should you lose sleep over losing sleep over the economy?"

From Improbable Research:
July 31st, 2014
Three economists issued a wake-up call of some sort about the economy and sleep. The economists say that people who say they lose sleep over the economy are — in the aggregate, statistically speaking, based on some data and cogitation —wrong.
Marina Antillon of Yale, Diane S. Lauderdale of the University of Chicago, and John Mullahy of the University of Wisconsin explain themselves in a new study called “Sleep behavior and unemployment conditions” [published in the journal Economics & Human Biology, vol. 14, July 2014, pp. 22–32]….
—so begins another Improbable Innovation nugget, which appears in its entirety on BetaBoston.
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