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Research Project Report
March 19, 2024
Integrating Nonmarket Consumption into the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey
AbstractIn spring 2021, under the direction and encouragement of Commissioner William Beach, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) kicked off a major initiative—to produce a measure of consumption to supplement the release of consumer expenditures. The production of such a measure would fill a data gap regarding household economic well-being. For years BLS staff, […]
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Research Project Report
June 30, 2022
Assessing the Impact of Childcare Expansion in Mexico
AbstractThere is broad consensus in both research and policy circles that one of the key reasons for a lack of progress in reducing gender gaps in employment and wages is the persistent gender imbalance in unpaid work, three-quarters of which is performed by women. Universal access to quality care services enables the reduction of this […]
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Research Project Report
July 08, 2021
Scope and Effects of Reducing Time Deficits via Intrahousehold Redistribution of Household Production
AbstractGender disparity in the division of responsibilities for unpaid care and domestic work (household production) is a central and pervasive component of inequalities between men and women and boys and girls. Reducing disparity in household production figures as one element of the goal of gender equality enshrined in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) […]
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Research Project Report
September 17, 2019
Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Impacts of Improving Physical and Social Infrastructure
AbstractFeminist economics has long emphasized the role of physical and social infrastructure as determinants of the time women spend on household production (the provision of unpaid domestic services and care). Surprisingly, there is a lack of studies that directly investigate how infrastructure improvements affect the time spent on household production and commuting to work, which […]
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One-Pager No. 57
September 10, 2018
Stagnating Economic Well-Being Amid Rising Government Support
AbstractThe Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) was designed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the changes affecting household living standards. Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Fernando Rios-Avila summarize their latest research on the trends in economic well-being for US households. They reveal historic stagnation in LIMEW growth over the 2000–13 period, as […]
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Working Paper No. 912
August 29, 2018
The Sources and Methods Used in the Creation of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for the United States, 1959–2013
AbstractThis paper documents the sources of data used in the construction of the estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Wellbeing (LIMEW) for the years 1959, 1972, 1982, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013. It also documents the methods used to combine the various sources of data into the synthetic […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 146
August 16, 2018
Stagnating Economic Well-Being and Unrelenting Inequality
AbstractAjit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Fernando Rios-Avila update the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for US households for the period 2000–13. The LIMEW—which comprises base income, income from wealth, net government expenditures, and the value of household production—is aimed at achieving a more comprehensive understanding of trends in living standards. This policy brief […]
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Research Project Report
August 08, 2018
The Measurement of Time and Consumption Poverty in Ghana and Tanzania
AbstractTime constraints that stem from the overlapping domains of paid and unpaid work are of central concern to the debates surrounding the economic development of developing countries in general and countries of sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Time deficits due to household production are especially acute in these countries due to the poor state of social […]
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Policy Notes No. 4
May 31, 2018
Wage Employment and the Prospects of Women’s Economic Empowerment
AbstractIn this policy note, Thomas Masterson and Ajit Zacharias address the nexus between wage employment, consumption poverty, and time deficits in the context of Ghana and Tanzania. Based on a recently completed research project supported by the Hewlett Foundation, the authors apply the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) to estimate whether […]
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Policy Notes No. 4
November 09, 2017
How Time Deficits and Hidden Poverty Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals
AbstractThe predominant framework for measuring poverty rests on an implicit assumption that everyone has enough time available to devote to household production or enough resources to compensate for deficits in household production by purchasing market substitutes. Senior Scholar Ajit Zacharias argues that this implicit bias in our official poverty statistics threatens to undermine the Sustainable […]
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Working Paper No. 880
January 04, 2017
The Great Recession and Racial Inequality
AbstractThe Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have been unfolding for more than two […]
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Working Paper No. 865
May 05, 2016
Measuring Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires
AbstractWe describe the production of estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and use it to analyze the incidence of time and income poverty. We find high numbers of hidden poor—those who are not poor according to the official measure but are found to be poor […]
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Research Project Report
August 28, 2014
The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty in Korea
AbstractThis report presents findings from a joint project of the Levy Economics Institute and the Korea Employment Information Service, with the central objective of developing a measure of time and income poverty for Korea that takes into account household production (unpaid work) requirements. Standard measurements of poverty assume that all households have enough time to […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 136
August 28, 2014
Can Child-care Subsidies Reduce Poverty?
AbstractIn partnership with the Korea Employment Information Service, Senior Scholar Ajit Zacharias and Research Scholars Thomas Masterson and Kijong Kim investigate the complex issues of gender, changing labor market conditions, and the public provisioning of child care in Korea using the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP), an alternative measure that factors […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 132
May 05, 2014
How Poor Is Turkey? And What Can Be Done About It?
AbstractGauging the severity of poverty in a given country requires a reasonably comprehensive measurement of whether individuals and households are surpassing some basic threshold of material well-being. This would seem to be an obvious point, and yet, in most cases, our official poverty metrics fail that test, often due to a crucial omission. In this […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 132
May 05, 2014
Πόσο φτωχή είναι η Τουρκία και τι μπορεί να γίνει
AbstractH μέτρηση της σοβαρότητας της φτώχειας σε μια δεδομένη χώρα πρέπει να εξετάζει με έναν αρκετά περιεκτικό τρόπο το κατά πόσο τα άτομα και τα νοικοκυριά ξεπερνούν κάποιο βασικό όριο όσον αφορά την υλική ευημερία. Ωστόσο, αν και αυτό το σημείο πιθανώς να φαίνεται προφανές, στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις οι επίσημες μετρήσεις της φτώχειας αποτυγχάνουν αυτή […]
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Research Project Report
May 01, 2014
Time Deficits and Poverty
AbstractOfficial poverty lines in Turkey and other countries often ignore the fact that unpaid household production activities that contribute to the fulfillment of material needs and wants are essential for the household to reproduce itself as a unit. This omission has consequences. Taking household production for granted when measuring poverty yields an unacceptably incomplete picture, […]
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One-Pager No. 46
February 12, 2014
Φτώχεια χρόνου και κατανάλωσης στην Τουρκία
AbstractΤο Μέτρο Φτώχειας Χρόνου και Κατανάλωσης του Levy Institute (LIMTCP) είναι ένα δισδιάστατο μέτρο που λαμβάνει υπόψη τόσο τις απαραίτητες καταναλωτικές δαπάνες όσο και το χρόνο που απαιτείται από τα νοικοκυριά για την επίτευξη ενός ελάχιστου επιπέδου διαβίωσης, παράγοντες που συχνά αγνοούνται από την επίσημη μέτρηση της φτώχιας. Στην περίπτωση της Τουρκίας, η εφαρμογή του […]
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One-Pager No. 46
February 12, 2014
Time and Consumption Poverty in Turkey
AbstractThe Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) is a two-dimensional measure that takes into account both the necessary consumption expenditures and the household production time needed to achieve a minimum standard of living—factors often ignored in official poverty measures. In the case of Turkey, application of the LIMTCP reveals an additional 7.6 […]
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One-Pager No. 45
January 13, 2014
Time Deficits and Hidden Poverty in Korea
AbstractOfficial poverty lines in Korea and other countries ignore the fact that unpaid household production contributes to the fulfillment of material needs and wants that are essential to attaining a minimum standard of living. By taking household work for granted, these official estimates provide an inaccurate accounting of the breadth and depth of poverty—and can […]
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One-Pager No. 45
January 13, 2014
Έλλειμμα χρόνου και κρυφή φτώχεια στην Κορέα
AbstractΤα επίσημα ποσοστά φτώχειας στην Κορέα και σε άλλες χώρες αγνοούν το γεγονός ότι η άμισθη παραγωγή των νοικοκυριών συμβάλλει στην εκπλήρωση των υλικών αναγκών και των επιθυμιών που είναι απαραίτητες για την επίτευξη ενός ελάχιστου επιπέδου διαβίωσης. Με το να θεωρούνται δεδομένες οι δουλειές του νοικοκυριού, οι επίσημες εκτιμήσεις παρέχουν ανακριβή μέτρηση του εύρους […]
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Research Project Report
December 21, 2012
The Interlocking of Time and Income Deficits
AbstractThis report is published as part of the “Undoing Knots, Innovating for Change” series, issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean through its Gender Practice Area. It includes findings from a UNDP-supported research project undertaken in 2011 by the Levy Economics Institute with the objective of […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 126
November 06, 2012
It's About "Time"
AbstractWe cannot adequately assess how much or how little progress we have made in addressing the condition of the most vulnerable in our societies, or provide accurate guidance to policymakers intent on improving each individual’s and household’s ability to reach a basic standard of living, if we do not have a reliable means of measuring […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 126
November 06, 2012
Εργασία, οικιακή παραγωγή και χρονικές απαιτήσεις
AbstractΔεν μπορούμε να εκτιμήσουμε επαρκώς πόση πολύ ή πόση λίγη πρόοδος έχει γίνει για την αντιμετώπιση της κατάστασης των πιο ευάλωτων στις κοινωνίες μας, ή να παρέχουμε σωστή καθοδήγηση στους χαράκτες πολιτικής που στοχεύουν στη βελτίωση των ικανοτήτων του κάθε ατόμου και νοικοκυριού να επιτύχει ένα βασικό βιοτικό επίπεδο, αν δεν διαθέτουμε ένα αξιόπιστο μέσο […]
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