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| Ashley Whillans
2021, Paper: "Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working mothers (N=1550), a population who is especially likely to experience severe time poverty. Participants received vouchers for services designed to reduce their…
| Ashley Whillans
December 15, 2020, Video: "Larry Gennari, partner at Gennari Aronson, interviews Ashley Whillans, professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and author of Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live A Happier Life. Curated by Gennari Aronson and presented by the Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College, the fourth annual Authors & Innovators Business Ideas Festival featured top 2020 business book authors,…
| Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger sum of money later. We find that experiencing more income volatility—including a higher frequency of either income dips or spikes – is associated with greater financial impatience. Using longitudinal data on biannual income, Study 1 demonstrates that…
| Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to alter how people spend their time, with possible downstream consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 30,018) and following a preregistered analytic plan, we find notable gender differences in time-use, with women and especially mothers spending more time on necessities such as childcare and household chores…
| Ashley Whillans
August 6, 2020, Paper: "Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the growing body of evidence showing that people engage in a wide array of prosocial behaviors (e.g., charitable giving, volunteering, blood/organ donation,…
| Ashley Whillans
Are New Graduates Happier Making More Money or Having More Time? Ashley Whillans, July 25, 2019, Paper, "Each year across North America, millions of graduates have to make tradeoffs between time and money as they plan their next steps. Despite the importance of these choices, we know surprisingly little about how people navigate major life decisions that involve making more money at the expense of having less time, and vice versa. Researchers…
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Dr. Ashley Whillans Harvard Business School: How money can buy happiness. Ashley Whillans, May 13, 2019, Video, "Dr. Ashley Whillans Harvard Business School: How money can buy happiness... Here’s how, according to Dr. Ashley Whillans, a social psychologist at Harvard Business School."…
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The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World. Ashley Whillans, April 17, 2019, Paper, "How can workplace rewards promote employee well-being and engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation and affective commitment…
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From Dollars to Sense: Placing a Monetary Value on Non-Cash Compensation Encourages Employees to Value Time over Money. Ashley Whillans, 2019, Paper, "When deciding where to work, employees may focus too much on salary and not enough on non cash benefits such as paid time-off, potentially undermining their long-term happiness. We propose a simple solution to encourage employees to recognize the value of non-cash benefits: list the financial…
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Use Your Money to Buy Happier Time. Ashley Whillans, January 29, 2019, Audio, "Ashley Whillans, professor at Harvard Business School, researches time-money trade-offs. She argues more people would be happier if they spent more of their hard-earned money to buy themselves out of negative experiences. Her research shows that paying to outsource housework or to enjoy a shorter commute can have an outsized impact on happiness and relationships.…