Public Infrastructure Investment and Non-Market Work in India: Selective Evidence from Time Use Data

Theory of allocation of time revealed that historically market-time has never consistently been greater than the non-market time and therefore the allocation and efficiency of latter may be equally important, if not more, to economic growth than that of former. The time budget data challenged the existing theories on allocation of time where nonmarket time aggregates leisure and work at home. The time budget findings revealed that unpaid work at home and leisure are not affected in the same way by changes in socio-economic variables. [Working paper No. 47] URL: [http://www.nipfp.org.in/newweb/sites/default/files/wp_2007_47.pdf]