Discussion: The Economics of Multitasking

One major goal of this volume was to show that multitasldng can be incorporated into a standard economic household production model in which individuals choose to engage in multitasking in order to enhance their productivity and, hence, their utility or well-being. Chapters 2 and 3 presented complementary theoretical models that provide this economic motivation for multitasking and examined the implications of these models for time-allocation decisions. However, while these models take the household production literature a step forward by incorporating multitasking into existing theoretical models, they are limited in that they focus on household production only.

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