A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States

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Enghin Atalay
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[1] Research Department,
[2] Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,undefined
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Journal of Population Economics | 2024年 / 37卷
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Time use; Subjective well-being; Aloneness; D12; I31; J11;
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This paper explores trends in time alone and with others in the United States. Since 2003, Americans have increasingly spent their free time alone on leisure at home and have decreasingly spent their free time with individuals from other households. These trends are more pronounced for non-White individuals, for males, for the less educated, and for individuals from lower-income households. Survey respondents who spend a large fraction of their free time alone report lower subjective well-being. As a result, differential trends in time alone suggest that between-group subjective well-being inequality may be increasing more quickly than previous research has reported.
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