Article
Active Leisure, Passive Leisure and Health
Economics & Human Biology
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
8-20-2021
DOI
10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101053
Abstract
Leisure consumption has been increasing in the United States since the 1960s. Over the same period, inactive lifestyles have contributed to adverse health outcomes. We propose a new way of categorizing leisure into groups based on the amount of physical exercise needed. Our results show that physically active leisure is a normal good whose demand rises with education and health, while physically passive leisure is an inferior good whose demand rises with lower education and poorer health. These patterns allow us to propose a taxonomy that categorizes various leisure activities into ‘Active’ and ‘Passive’ groups.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Copyright Owner
Elsevier B.V.
Copyright Date
2021
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Soumyadip Roy and Peter F. Orazem. "Active Leisure, Passive Leisure and Health" Economics & Human Biology (2021) p. 101053 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter-orazem/147/
This is a manuscript of an article published as Roy, Soumyadip, and Peter F. Orazem. "Active Leisure, Passive Leisure and Health." Economics & Human Biology (2021): 101053. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101053. Posted with permission.