Why Night Owls and Early Birds Affect the GDP

Determined genetically, our sleep preferences as night owls, morning larks or neither could affect our productivity at work.

The Plight of the Night Owl

I must start with my bias. I am a night owl. So too were Winston Churchill and Charles Darwin, James Joyce and Glenn Gould. In one interview, Ann Beattie said, “I really think people’s bodies are on different clocks. I…