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• Working Paper No. 1081 April 21, 2025

  The Rise and Rise of Feminist Macroeconomics: Who’s Recognizing?

  Günseli Berik, and Ebru Kongar
  Abstract

  Macroeconomics is arguably the most male-dominated field within the discipline of economics. Since the mid-1990s, feminist economists have thoroughly and meticulously challenged this field through empirical and theoretical analyses and proposed alternative starting points, frameworks, and models. We evaluate the contributions of five scholars—Nilüfer Çağatay, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Stephanie Seguino, and Elissa Braunstein—who have […]

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• Working Paper No. 978 November 16, 2020

  Potential Impact of Daycare Closures on Parental Child Caregiving in Turkey

  Ebru Kongar, and Emel Memiş
  Abstract

  Daycares closed on March 16, 2020 in Turkey to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the two most common nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey—care of children by grandparents and nannies—became undesirable due to health concerns and in some cases also unfeasible due to the partial lockdown for individuals under the age of […]

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• Working Paper No. 888 April 20, 2017

  Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Time Use of Married and Cohabiting Parents during the Great Recession

  Ebru Kongar, and Mark Price
  Abstract

  Using data from the 2003–14 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), this paper examines the relationship between the state unemployment rate and the time that opposite-sex couples with children spend on childcare activities, and how this varies by the socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity of the mothers and fathers. The time that mothers and fathers […]

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• Working Paper No. 884 February 24, 2017

  Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle

  Ebru Kongar, and Emel Memiş
  Abstract

  Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid work is largest among parents of […]

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• Working Paper No. 812 August 01, 2014

  Time Use of Parents in the United States

  Günseli Berik, and Ebru Kongar
  Abstract

  Feminist and institutionalist literature has challenged the “Mancession” narrative of the 2007–09 recession and produced nuanced and gender-aware analyses of the labor market and well-being outcomes of the recession. Using American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–12, this paper examines the recession’s impact on gendered patterns of time use over the course of the […]

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• Working Paper No. 726 June 11, 2012

  Time Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times

  Günseli Berik, and Ebru Kongar
  Abstract

  The recession precipitated by the US financial crisis of 2007 accelerated the convergence of women’s and men’s employment rates, as men experienced disproportionate job losses and women’s entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–10, this study examines whether the recession also occasioned a decline in […]

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• Working Paper No. 696 November 07, 2011

  Time Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times and Better Times

  Günseli Berik, and Ebru Kongar
  Abstract

  The US economic crisis and recession of 2007–09 accelerated the convergence of women’s and men’s employment rates as men experienced disproportionate job losses and women’s entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–10, this study examines whether the narrowing gap in paid work over this period […]

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• Working Paper No. 436 January 15, 2006

  Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs?

  Ebru Kongar
  Abstract

  This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in American manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the relative demand for women workers, given the high female share in these […]

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