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 results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...

The global economic and financial crisis has grown far larger than first anticipated and has affected the world at unprecedented level. The financial crisis is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The down turn in economic...