Die Zeitverwendungserhebung ist eine freiwillige Haushaltsbefragung, die alle zehn Jahre in Deutschland durchgeführt wird. Sie gibt Aufschluss darüber, für welche Aktivitäten verschiedene Bevölkerungsgruppen in unterschiedlichen Lebenslagen täglich ihre Zeit aufwenden. Darüber hinaus...

School-aged children and adolescents under 18 in Ireland spend more time online than ever before. 'Digital technology' is a broad term that refers to electronic devices like computers, smartphones, smart TVs and game consoles. These devices can connect to the internet and access various types of...

Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off-farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analyzed links between off-farm employment and wellbeing, but mostly at the household level, not considering that household...

Motivated by the goal of increasing the use of renewable energies as a vital part of the energy transition, altering energy consumption in off-grid areas, and involving consumers in the decision-making process of the electricity market, demand response programs are considered essential measures...

Holt and Vinopal (2023) investigate whether there is inequality in how much time people spend waiting for services using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). They find that (1) high-income people are both less likely to wait and spend less time waiting than low-income people, and that (2) this...

We consider how a physical disability alters patterns of time use. A disability may raise the time cost of all activities; of some-making them differentially less worth doing; or it may make switching activities more costly. The first yields no predictions about time use, but the latter two...

Studies into the ethical aspects of consumption tend to focus on a limited class of actions that are explicitly understood as "ethical consumption". The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided a context in which other ethical issues and questions of whom we should care for first, and how, suddenly and...