Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman, and Longitude
利用美国和澳大利亚的时间利用调查数据，研究日照、电视节目表和时区如何影响人们的工作和睡眠时间安排，发现协调需求是时间差异的重要原因。
Daylight, television schedules, and time zones can alter timing and induce temporal coordination of economic activities. With the American Time Use Survey for 2003-2004 and data from Australia for 1992, we show that television schedules and the locations of time zones affect the timing of market work and sleep, with differences in timing being generated partly by returns to coordination with other agents. The responsiveness to time zone differences is greatest among workers in industries in national markets. An exogenous shock resulting from an area's nonadherence to daylight saving time leads its residents to alter work schedules to coordinate with people elsewhere. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.