important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth …Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a … youth, but to monitor the progress a better understanding on what constitutes youth empowerment is needed. However, in …

This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey … and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present … Recession. However, there were signs that female teenagers were stressed as they slept less and were more likely to smoke …

related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time … household children. However, if their father is disabled, boys spend more time on food preparation and cleanup. Boys living with … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …

Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship …

. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American …