Winter weather and work hours: Heterogeneous effects and regional adaptation

Winter weather affects hours worked. We examine how work reported in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) vary with respect to snowfall 265 metropolitan areas over years 2004-2014. The effects of on across types workers, occupation, industry, and region. Losses due snow events are particularly large South among construction workers. An average daily inch during a reference week reduces by about an hour. Few lost from snowfalls made-up subsequent weeks. A back-of-an-envelope calculation suggests that year, leads 0.15 percent loss annual worked, small but nontrivial impact.