Across the world, families, schools, and governments are increasingly regulating adolescents’ digital and social media use, often without robust empirical evidence to support new rules. This talk brings together evidence from three studies investigating the effects of these measures. The first looks at the effects of school smartphone bans on social media use and well-being

Has the gender revolution stalled? An influential thesis says yes. We test it with time-use data from the US, Germany and six other European countries, using 48 surveys covering adults aged 25-40 born between the 1940s and 1990s. Taking a cohort rather than a period perspective, we examine paid work alongside three kinds of unpaid

Parents make difficult choices between earning income and time with their family, and while the detrimental consequences for adolescent’s mental health from financial hardships is well known, is there a comparable impact from time pressures? Using longitudinal data from Australian households (HILDA, 11,128 observations) we consider couple and lone parent households where parents have a

What does it mean to live under time? Life course research is fundamentally concerned with time, but less so with the temporal conditions under which people must act as their lives unfold. I develop the idea of temporal positioning to examine how socially organized relations to time shape what people can do, when, and on what