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A Herstory of Economics Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Irene van Staveren
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Women-Led Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises During COVID-19: Examining Barriers and Opportunities Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Michael Kevane, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Diva Dhar
This study synthesizes evidence on gender dimensions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) following the COVID-19 pandemic. Women-led SMEs are as...
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Has the Feminist Economics Intellectual Project Lost its Way? An Analysis of the Journal’s Evolution Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sarah F. Small, Elissa Braunstein
This article analyzes the methodologies, scope, and impact of manuscripts submitted to and published in Feminist Economics from 1995 to 2019. The analysis finds that in addition to becoming increas...
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Sorting the Gender Earnings Gap: Heterogeneity in the South African Labor Market Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Dorrit Posel, Dambala Gelo, Daniela Casale, Adeola Oyenubi
This study explores inequality among Africans in the South African labor market by investigating heterogeneity in the gender earnings gap. The article adds to the existing literature by applying an...
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Keeping Girls in Schools Longer: The Kanyashree Approach in India Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Gitanjali Sen, Dhanushka Thamarapani
Regarding interventions aimed at preventing girls from prematurely dropping out of schools, this study shows that inducing economic empowerment of girls is possible with targeted policies that prom...
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Thanks to Reviewers Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-12
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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The Gendered Relationship Between Temporary, Informal Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Turkish Labor Market Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Anil Duman
This article examines the relationship between types of employment and wages by gender and gender pay gaps among permanent, temporary, and informal workers. There are substantial gender inequalitie...
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Time Use and Life Satisfaction within Couples: A Gender Analysis for Belgium Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Bram De Rock, Guillaume Périlleux
This article looks at the time allocation of individuals with a focus on paid and unpaid work, its division within households, and its link with life satisfaction. The study uses the cross-sectiona...
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Less Work, More Labor: School Closures and Work Hours During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Lisa Hanzl, Miriam Rehm
This article explores the gendered impact of school closures on paid work hours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria. Using data from the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP) covering generalize...
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Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: Evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 José Espinoza-Delgado, Jacques Silber
Understanding why women are less financially literate than men is crucial for developing effective policies that decrease gender inequalities and improve women’s financial literacy, agency, and emp...
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Gender Differences in Opinions about Market Solutions and Government Interventions: The Case Of Uruguayan Economists Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Verónica Amarante, Marisa Bucheli, Tatiana Pérez
This article explores the differences in views between men and women Uruguayan economists regarding their opinions about market solutions and government interventions. In line with international ev...
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Gender, Race, and Class in an Intersectional Framework: Occupations and Wages in the United States Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Olga Alonso-Villar, Coral del Río
Using family income as a class measure, this article explores whether gender and racial/ethnic gaps in hourly wages are the same across classes in the United States for 2015–2019. The study shows t...
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The Time-Use Agency Scale: Development and Validation of a Measure for Ghana and Beyond Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Sheela Sinharoy, Yuk Fai Cheong, Greg Seymour, Jessica Heckert, Erin R. Johnson, Kathryn M. Yount
Global health and development interventions often are predicated on the reallocation of women's time for the achievement of program objectives; yet research and programs have paid limited attention...
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Gender and Generation: Landownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Hope Xu Yan, Sonalde Desai, Debasis Barik
While increased access to household assets has been shown to improve older individuals’ autonomy and bargaining power at home, the role of gender hierarchy in shaping differential impacts of househ...
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Women’s Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Lara Maestripieri
The rate of involuntary part-time work among women has increased sharply. Scholars have demonstrated its links with diminished career opportunities, deteriorated working conditions, and low pay at ...
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Patriarchal Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination of Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Sarah F. Small
This article studies the relationship between unpaid housework and business ownership in the United States. To examine this empirically, it uses Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data from 1985...
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COVID-19, Income Shocks, and Women’s Employment in India Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Ishaan Bansal, Kanika Mahajan
Existing evidence shows that the COVID-19 pandemic led to larger employment losses for working women in India. This article examines the heterogeneity that underlies these trends by studying the im...
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Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Linn Ternsjö
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Shecession: The Downfall of Colombian Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Ana Tribin, Karen García-Rojas, Paula Herrera-Idarraga, Leonardo Fabio Morales, Natalia Ramirez-Bustamante
This article explores the short-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis on gender gaps in the Colombian labor market. Colombia offers an interesting case for analysis because, as with most countries in...
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The Sustainability of Life Approach: A State of Affairs Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Astrid Agenjo-Calderón
This article explores the main features of the “sustainability of life” approach, a theoretical and political approach specifically developed in the context of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbea...
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Who Cares, Too? Degenderization of Childcare Policies in Europe: A Dynamic Fuzzy-Set Analysis Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Dorota Szelewa, Michał Polakowski
This article traces the evolution of childcare policies in Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom during the period 2005–15 in order to observe changes possibly related to economic crisis. Applying the concept of degenderization and the method of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA), the study examines: (1) equality of parental leave
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Lisa Saunders 1956–2022 In Memoriam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Mary C. King, Catherine J. Weinberger
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Gender Differential and Financial Inclusion: Women Shareholders of Banco Hispano Americano in Spain (1922–35) Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Laura Lopez-Gomez
This study reveals that women had a significant presence as shareholders in Spanish financial corporations in the early-twentieth century. In the 1920s and 1930s, on average, 40 percent of the shareholders of Banco Hispano Americano, a leading commercial bank, were women, and they owned more than one-third of the share capital. The legal framework did not discriminate against women’s ownership, and
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Empowering Women Economists at the American Economic Association Through the Development of the Publication Job Openings for Economists Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Thomas Scheiding
ABSTRACT In the late 1960s, the American Economic Association (AEA) began to address the concerns of the marginalized in the profession with the publication of Job Openings for Economists. Women economists, empowered by the mass women's liberation movement at the time, formed a committee within the AEA to press for equal opportunity and greater access to the job market. This committee focused their
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The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Yasemin Dildar
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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Nilüfer Çagatay 1955–2022 In Memoriam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Diane Elson, Caren Grown
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Drucilla K. Barker 1949–2023 In Memoriam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Suzanne Bergeron, Edith Kuiper
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Rosalba Todaro 1941–2022 In Memoriam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 María Elena Cardero, Alma Espino, Valeria Esquivel, Lucía Pérez Fragoso, Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Soledad Salvador, Alison Vásconez
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Informal Work and the Appropriation of Social Reproduction in Home-Based Work in India Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Natascia Boeri
Home-based work is among the largest forms of employment in the informal economy in India and is overwhelmingly represented by women. Employing a social reproduction framework that reframes what is counted as labor, this article asks how women’s unpaid work activities are appropriated as labor in subcontracted home-based work. Applying this analytical framework, it becomes clear that domestic work
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Does the Absence of Men from the Household Increase Girls’ Shares in Education Expenditures? Evidence from Rural Pakistan Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sundus Saleemi
This article investigates the impact of men’s migration on expenditure by left-behind households on children’s education, focusing on the gendered distribution of this expenditure. Using longitudinal survey data of rural households in Pakistan, the effect of men’s migration on the share of households’ education expenditure spent on girls is estimated using the fixed-effects model (FEM). Results suggest
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The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Well-Being in India During COVID-19 Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy
This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment declined by 84 percentage points during the pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their monthly earnings fell by 89 percent relative to the baseline mean. In contrast, women
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Critical Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Carol Cohn, Claire Duncanson
ABSTRACT In the current context of unprecedented and interconnected ecological and inequalities crises, many in the Global North are hitching their hopes onto Green New Deals (GNDs). This article argues that feminist analysis is crucial for exposing the flaws in GNDs, and that different kinds of feminist questioning lead to different kinds of policy responses, with very different scales of potential
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The Crooked Codes of the Luxury Handbag: Narratives of Empowered Feminine Consumption in Africa Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Mehita Iqani
This article critiques discourses about women consumers of luxury goods in Africa. It does so through the example of the designer handbag, which presented as a key theme in interviews with people employed in luxury sectors in major African cities. The luxury handbag symbolizes an overarching idea of women’s success, though women are narrated as taking different routes to achieve it. Employing the spatial
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Domestic Burdens Amid Covid-19 and Women’s Mental Health in Middle-Income Africa Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Valerie Mueller, Karen Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Anne Ngunjiri, Amy Oyekunle, Clare Wenham
This article analyzes two longitudinal datasets (October – December 2020; April 2021) of 1,000 and 900 women in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively, alongside in-depth qualitative interviews with women at risk of changes to time use, to study two pandemic issues: women’s substitution of paid for unpaid work and how these shifts compromise their mental health. Women devote more time to domestic care (30–38
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Gender-Based Policies and the Role of Patriarchal Norms: Evidence from Northern India Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Pareena Gupta Lawrence, Catherine Hensly
Gender-based seat reservation policies are designed to promote gender parity in political representation by overcoming patriarchal social structures. But laws and policy are created by, and exist within, presiding social structures. These existing structures may undermine the efficacy of such policies, especially in regions where strong patriarchal norms persist. This study examines this phenomenon
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Income Diversification Among Farming Households Headed by Women in Rural Kenya Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Elin Vimefall, Jörgen Levin
ABSTRACT This article discusses barriers to women’s economic empowerment and opportunities for households headed by women to diversify incomes in the rural parts of Kenya. The study analyzes the full range of income-generating activities at the household level and also accounts for the different types of female-headed households, each of which face different constraints. The findings show that not
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Determinants of Wealth Outcomes in Female-Headed Households in Vietnam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Duc Hong Vo, Chi Minh Ho
This article uses data from the 2014 Vietnamese Household Living Standards Survey to compare the wealth outcome of Vietnamese female-headed households (FHH) to that of their male counterparts. The study takes an open position on the possible link between being a female head of the household and economic outcomes, focusing on heterogeneity among FHHs. The findings confirm that Vietnam has a small but
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Residential Segregation and Women’s Labor Market Participation: The Case of Santiago De Chile Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Manuel García Dellacasa
Women’s labor market participation in Chile ranks among the lowest in Latin America. In a country where over 90 percent of the population lives in segregated cities, where employment opportunities cluster in affluent neighborhoods, residential sorting has surprisingly been neglected as an explanatory factor. This article addresses this omission by calculating the effects of residential segregation
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Unlanded Class: Albania's Gender Gaps in Land Ownership and Inheritance Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Edvin Zhllima, Dorina Pojani, Elvina Merkaj, Drini Imami
This study investigates gender gaps in access to land ownership and land inheritance in Albanian rural areas by combining a large-scale survey and five in-depth focus groups discussions. The article considers three sets of variables: place-based characteristics; family characteristics; and individual characteristics. Results find that rural societies lack awareness around legal property rights, undermine
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Race/Ethnicity and Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Policies for Gender Equality in the United States Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Nabamallika Dehingia, Jeni Klugman, Elena Ortiz, Anita Raj
ABSTRACT This study examines whether intersecting identities of race/ethnicity and sex are associated with attitudes toward gender equality policies, using online survey data from a representative sample in the United States carried out in August 2020. Participants (N = 2,443) were categorized as White Male, Black Male, Hispanic Male, White Female, Black Female, and Hispanic Female. Findings reveal
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‘The Best Job in the World’: Breadwinning and the Capture of Household Labor in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century British Coalmining Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Jane Humphries, Ryah Thomas
This article explores the effects of gender inequality and women's disempowerment in the context of historical coalmining. Across the United States and Europe, ex-coalmining regions are characterized by significant deprivation. While there are many reasons for persistent problems, this study focuses on the restrictions imposed on women's involvement in economic life. Families in mining communities
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Precarity of Subsistence: Social Reproduction Among South African Nurses Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Jennifer Cohen
ABSTRACT The concept of precarity extends beyond insecure wage work into the conditions of social reproduction: supporting dependents can expose even securely employed, relatively well-paid workers to precarity. Qualitative data from public hospital nurses in Johannesburg reveal how responsibility for social reproduction can contribute to precarity among women in some contexts. This study maps nurses’
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The Impact of Household Labor Distribution on Domestic Conflicts During Covid-19 Confinement Orders in Spain and Italy Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Yolanda Hernández-Albújar, Gemma Sáez, Marta Garrido-Macías
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns that started in March 2020 have sparked an increase in domestic labor in many families across the globe. This study focuses on gender differences in the distribution of domestic housework and childcare, as well as how they have impacted couples’ conflicts during confinement, in the context of Spain and Italy. It employs a sequential mixed-methods
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Thanks to Reviewers Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-10-11
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Els Lecoutere, Bjorn Van Campenhout
In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources. This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses on household welfare and public goods provision in Ugandan and Tanzanian monogamous smallholder coffee farming households. The random encouragement to
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The Affordable Care Act and Women’s Self-Employment in the United States Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
The United States’ Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 improved and expanded availability of non-group health insurance. Previous studies have shown that women in the US workforce value health insurance more highly than men do. Because prior to the ACA self-employed individuals did not have guaranteed access to affordable health insurance coverage, women’s relatively lower rate of self-employment may
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Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Almudena Sevilla, Marina Della Giusta
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Katrina Kosec, Jie Song, Hongdi Zhao, Brian Holtemeyer
How do fluctuations in income affect labor supply decisions, and how do their effects differ by gender? This study analyzes data from a thirteen-year rolling panel in Kyrgyzstan spanning 2004–16. It addresses the endogeneity of fluctuations in income to labor supply decisions by employing shift share instruments that exploit region-level changes over time in growth rates of different sources of revenue
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The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Jayati Ghosh
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
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The Gendered Effects of Teachers’ Unions on Teacher Attrition: Evidence from District–Teacher Matched Data in the US Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Eunice Han
This study examines how teachers' unions differently affect teacher attrition by gender, relying on nationally representative, district–teacher matched data from the United States. To identify union effects, the article employs a multilevel linear model and exploits natural experiments. Results find that teachers' unions reduce teacher attrition and that the union effects greatly differ by teacher
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Feminist Perspectives on Care and Macroeconomic Modeling: Introduction to the Special Issue Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Robert A. Blecker, Elissa Braunstein
ABSTRACT Macroeconomic models and associated policy analyses have long focused exclusively on market production, ignoring gender and care. Decades of feminist economic research, policy analysis, and activism around gender, care, and unpaid work have provided strong intellectual foundations for redressing this lacuna. This special issue represents the collaborative theoretical modeling work of a multidisciplinary
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Beyond Girls’ Education: Pathways to Women’s Post-Marital Education in Matlab, Bangladesh Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Kiera Chan, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Kathryn M. Yount
Globally, expanding women’s educational opportunities is promoted as an effective strategy for their empowerment. While women’s access to education in Bangladesh has increased in recent years, little is known about their participation in educational activities after marriage. Historically, local gender norms expect women to marry at an early age, perform domestic labor, and discontinue educational
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A Woman Who Did Not Wait: Louise Odencrantz and Her Fight for the Common Good Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Maria S. Floro
Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
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Sugarcane Commercialization and Gender Experiences in the Zambian “Sweetest Town” Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Simon Manda
ABSTRACT This article explores how sugarcane commercialization impacts gender relations, and processes that shape them, using two differently structured outgrower schemes – a settlement scheme and an European Union-driven block farm in southern Zambia. Results show gendered impacts across the schemes are complex and are shaped by diverse cultural arrangements as micro-processes. Intrahousehold patterns
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Poverty and Intrahousehold Gender Inequality in Time Use in Ghana Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Emmanuel Orkoh, Carike Claassen, Derick Blaauw
ABSTRACT How gender-based differences in time spent on household and labor-market activities affect men’s and women’s well-being is of growing interest to economists and policymakers. In many countries, women perform more unpaid work than men and have fewer opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty through education and training. This article analyzes the relationship between poverty and gender
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How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from The UK Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Elena Grinza, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi, Davide Vannoni
ABSTRACT People’s attitudes about how paid and unpaid work should be divided between the members of a couple determine gendered socioeconomic outcomes to a great extent. It is thus important to understand how gender role attitudes (GRA) are formed and evolve. This article concentrates on a path-breaking event in life: becoming a parent. Using longitudinal data from the United Kingdom, the study shows
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The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Shireen Kanji, Nicholas Vasilakos
Across many countries, girls perform more unpaid work than boys. This article shows how the time young women and girls spend in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap that is already evident by age 22. The study analyzes employment participation, type of employment, and wages using five waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey for Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Spending longer
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Gender Wage Gap, Gender Norms, and Long-Term Care: A Theoretical Framework Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Ignacio González, Bongsun Seo, Maria S. Floro
ABSTRACT Population aging in developed and developing economies has led to increasing number of older persons in need of care, posing a challenge to the social arrangements of care and creating important aggregate economic implications. This article proposes a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the interplay of gender norms and the gender wage gap, as well as specific characteristics of the paid
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Gender Division of Household Labor in the United States: How Does Culture Operate? Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Miriam Marcén, Marina Morales
ABSTRACT This article examines the ways in which culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue, the study uses data on early-arrival first- and second-generation immigrants living in the United States who have a married/unmarried partner present in the household. Because all of these individuals have grown up under the same laws, institutions, and economic conditions
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Happily Ever After? Mental Health Effects of Early Marriage in Indonesia Feminist Economics (IF 2.821) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Danusha Jayawardana
ABSTRACT Early marriage is a manifestation of gender discrimination against girls, leading to adverse consequences on their well-being. This article contributes to the literature by examining the effects of early marriage on the mental well-being of women – an area often overlooked in research. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from Indonesia and applying difference-in-differences regression