About
Boróka Bó is a sociologist and demographer. She studies time — and the ways in which it is shaped by social network, neighborhood, and sociodemographic characteristics — in order to delineate some of the mechanisms linking sociotemporal disparities and inequalities in well-being. She is especially interested in connecting the individual-level subjective experience and social patterning of time with institutional, sociodemographic, and neighborhood-level factors, contributing to our understanding of stratification and inequality.
Bó’s current research interrogates how the social experience of time impacts entrepreneurial decision making across the life course. Specifically, she seeks to provide precise insights into group-level variations in entrepreneurial progress by focusing on senior entrepreneurship within the context of climate action. Her multidisciplinary approach — combining sustainability science, sociology and entrepreneurship — aims to offer substantial contributions to current behavioral diffusion models, while providing a deeper understanding of how entrepreneurial behaviors emerge and diffuse, informing ongoing policy efforts.
Awards
- Best Research Impact by an Early Career Researcher, University of Essex, 2023
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Summer Diversity Institute Fellow, Stanford University, 2023
- Social Networks and Health NIH Training Fellowship, Duke University, 2021
- Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
- US National Science Foundation Graduate research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, University of California, San Francisco, 2012
Relevant Publications
- Boróka Bó. 2022. “Good Time, Bad Time: Socioeconomic Status, Time Scarcity, and Well-Being in Retirement.” American Journal of Sociology 128(2).
- Boróka Bó. 2022. “Time Availability as a Mediator between Socioeconomic Status and Health.” Social Science & Medicine - Population Health 19(101238).
- Boróka Bó and Denys Dukhovnov*. 2022. “Tell me who's your neighbor and I will tell you how much time you've got: the spatiotemporal consequences of ethnic residential segregation.” Population, Space & Place 3(28).