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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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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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Working Paper No. 899
January 12, 2018
Gender Pay Gaps in the Former Soviet Union: A Review of the Evidence
AbstractThe goal of this paper is to examine the patterns and movements of the gender pay gaps in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and to place them in the context of advanced economies. We survey over 30 publications and conduct a meta-analysis of this literature. Gender pay gaps in the region are […]
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Working Paper No. 858
January 12, 2016
Gender Dimensions of Inequality in the Countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS
AbstractThe collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as one of the key legacies of its socialist past. The transition experience of the region has amply demonstrated that the changes in the gender balance […]
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Working Paper No. 836
April 13, 2015
Direct Estimates of Food and Eating Production Function Parameters for 2004–12 Using an ATUS/CE Synthetic Dataset
AbstractThis paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of substitution between food expenditures and time and in the goods intensity parameter in the household food and eating production functions. We use a synthetic dataset constructed by statistically matching the American Time Use Survey and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We establish […]
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Working Paper No. 806
May 30, 2014
The Great Recession and Unpaid Work Time in the United States
AbstractPoverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due to the role of household production as a coping strategy in mitigating the impact of economic downturns. In this paper, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women […]
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Working Paper No. 768
July 02, 2013
Evaluating the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia, 2004–2011
AbstractThis paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and 2011, based on the recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition approach developed in Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log […]
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Working Paper No. 765
May 14, 2013
The Economic Crisis of 2008 and the Added Worker Effect in Transition Countries
AbstractFollowing the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries—the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union—experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated sectors were hit the hardest. These developments have prompted many to argue that women have […]
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Working Paper No. 641
December 02, 2010
Disaggregating the Resource Curse
AbstractThe hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since these policies were first introduced by comparing the periods […]
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Working Paper No. 608
August 09, 2010
Assessing the Returns to Education in Georgia
AbstractThe economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns. […]
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Working Paper No. 577
September 21, 2009
Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia
AbstractThis paper evaluates gender wage differentials in Georgia between 2000 and 2004. Using ordinary least squares, we find that the gender wage gap in Georgia is substantially higher than in other transition countries. Correcting for sample selection bias using the Heckman approach further increases the gender wage gap. The Blinder Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that […]
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