Sleep is key to our physical and mental health. It also affects people's employment and productivity. Joan Costa-i-Font, Sarah Fleche and Ricardo Pagan explore how the amount of weekly sleep influences employment, productivity and the income of individuals in Germany. Sleep is partly the product of both public and private decisions, and can be incentivised so that the negative economic effects of not sleeping enough are more salient to individuals.

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10 February 2024

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Vox EU

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https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/sleeping-our-way-being-productive

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