Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated
into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently 'time poor'—like they have too …

Time poverty is the concept that individuals do not have enough discretionary time–the time
available after engaging in necessary activities like sleep and in the committed activities of …

Poverty remains a primary public policy issue, and a large literature has discussed the
limitations of an income poverty measure. Using income as an indicator of poverty is a …

A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with
the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well …

Recent debates on time-use suggest that there is an inverse relationship between time
poverty and income poverty (Aguiar and Hurst in QJ Econ C (3): 969–1006, 2007), with …

Around the world, increases in wealth have produced an unintended consequence: a rising
sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a …

People's welfare is a function of both time and money. People can–and, it is said,
increasingly do–suffer time-poverty as well as money-poverty. It is undeniably true that …

Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, which
studies scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given …

Many people living in modern society feel like they do not have enough time and are
constantly searching for more. But is having limited discretionary time actually detrimental …

Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the
health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food …