There was an economic study looking at the economic benefits of sleep. 30 minutes may not sound like much, but it has some serious long term repercussions in li

There was an economic study looking at the economic benefits of sleep. 30 minutes may not sound like much, but it has some serious long term repercussions in lifetime earning. I know economic studies can be kind of gross, and should always be taken with a grain of salt, but Dubner is pretty good at finding really gross flaws in papers (or at least is really good at pointing out potential problems in a study's methods). http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics-of-sleep-part-2-full-transcript/ http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics-of-sleep-pa... >GIBSON: We find that permanently increasing sleep by an hour per week for everybody in a city, increases the wages in that location by about 4.5 percent.