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Should We Keep Changing the Clock? Characterizing Causal Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Behavior and Physiology

2025-12-29 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) remains contentious: some policymakers highlight behavioral benefits, while others emphasize health risks. Existing evidence relies largely on aggregated data and strict modeling assumptions, obscuring individual-level patterns and yielding associational rather than causal insights. We address these limitations using objective, longitudinal Fitbit measures from the NIH All of Us Research Program. Avoiding strict modeling assumptions, we employed a natural difference-in...

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