Why sleep matters

The economic costs of insufficient sleep

Marco Hafner, Martin Stepanek, Jirka Taylor, Wendy M. Troxel, Christian Van Stolk

Research SummaryPublished Apr 17, 2017

Improving individual sleeping habits has huge implications. Small increases in sleep can make big differences to national economies. RAND Europe's novel study quantifies the economic and social costs of insufficient sleep among the global workforce.

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Hafner, Marco, Martin Stepanek, Jirka Taylor, Wendy M. Troxel, and Christian Van Stolk, Why sleep matters: The economic costs of insufficient sleep, RAND Corporation, RB-9962-VH, 2017. As of October 5, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9962.html
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Hafner, Marco, Martin Stepanek, Jirka Taylor, Wendy M. Troxel, and Christian Van Stolk, Why sleep matters: The economic costs of insufficient sleep. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9962.html.
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