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People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of "task-switching" in psychology and the popular press. Meanwhile, economists have remained silent on the possible economic ramifications - both good and bad - of producers and/or consumers doing more than one thing at once. This first-of-its-kind volume explores the frequency, patterns, and economic implications of multitasking, with a particular focus on the multitasking of non-market activities such as child care, housework, eating, and studying. Using data sets from around the world and best-practice empirical and experimental techniques, the contributors to this volume explore the association of multitasking with output and welfare in a range of settings of interest to economists. Contributions in theory, empirical work, data management, and concepts are combined to yield the discipline's first holistic view of multitasking and to identify where the research frontiers lie in this area.
Gigi Foster is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She earned her BA from Yale University and her PhD in economics from the University of Maryland. Her research interests and contributions lie in the areas of education, social influence, behavioral economics, and the multi-disciplinary analysis of human behavior in groups.
- 2016, 1st ed. 2016, 216 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137381442
- ISBN-13: 9781137381446
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2016
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"The Economics of Multitasking, particularly in unpaid household production, challenges the treatment of this work in mainstream economics. This book uses best practice economic techniques to open a new space for the analysis of unpaid work, here focused on children and their care. In doing this it breaks a silence and opens many new opportunities for the use of these tools across household work activities." - Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
"While multitasking has received some attention from researchers and firms interested in on-the-job productivity, it is high time that the multitasking of other time uses received similar attention. Kalenkoski and Foster's book takes an important step in this direction, extending economic theory to recognize multitasking, documenting the prevalence of multitasking, empirically modeling the decision to multitask, and perhaps most importantly examining the impact of multitasking on outcomes." - Leslie S. Stratton, Professor of Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
"Time-use scientists Kalenkoski and Foster have assembled an edited volume that comprehensively examines how and why people multitask different types of activities. The theoretical, methodological, and empirical analyses that make up the volume are
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