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Working Paper No. 1018
April 21, 2023
The Unbearable Weight of Aging
AbstractThe aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China’s population fell as deaths surpassed births. Pundits worry that a declining Chinese workforce means trouble for other economies that have come to rely on China’s exports. France is pushing through an increase of the retirement age in the face of […]
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Working Paper No. 983
February 05, 2021
Intrahousehold Allocation of Household Production
AbstractIn this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household production in sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses time use survey data to analyze the determinants of time spent on household production by husbands and wives in nuclear families in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa. We […]
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Working Paper No. 978
November 16, 2020
Potential Impact of Daycare Closures on Parental Child Caregiving in Turkey
AbstractDaycares 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. 970
September 25, 2020
Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the Development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) for Ethiopia and South Africa
AbstractThis paper presents a description of the quality of match of the statistical matches used in the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) estimates prepared for Ethiopia and South Africa. For Ethiopia, the statistical match combines the Ethiopian Socio-economic Survey—Wave 3—2015/2016 (ESS) with the Ethiopian Time Use Survey (ETUS) 2013. For South […]
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Working Paper No. 967
September 07, 2020
Quality of Statistical Match Used in the Estimation of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Italy 2008 and 2014 and Preliminary Results
AbstractThis paper assesses the quality of the statistical matching used in the LIMTIP estimates for Italy for 2008 and 2014. The match combines the 2008–9 and 2013–14 Italian Time Use Survey (IT-TUS) with the Italian data collected for the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (IT-SILC) in 2009 and 2015. After the matching, the […]
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Working Paper No. 966
August 03, 2020
Developing a Macro-Micro Model for Analyzing Gender Impacts of Public Policy
AbstractThis paper discusses new methods of combined macro-micro analysis of labor demand and supply to investigate the gender impacts of public policy. In particular it examines how studies have used input-output analysis together with more or less sophisticated methods of allocating people to jobs to model the impact of public investment in care on the […]
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Research Project Report
April 01, 2019
Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care in Kyrgyz Republic
AbstractExpansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for all is a matter of the choices made regarding the allocation of public resources. As such, it is as much an issue of children’s well-being and gender equality as it is an issue of economic policy and fiscal allocation. This study—authored by Institute scholars Ipek […]
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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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Working Paper No. 888
April 20, 2017
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Time Use of Married and Cohabiting Parents during the Great Recession
AbstractUsing 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. 873
September 13, 2016
Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the Development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) for Ghana and Tanzania
AbstractThis document presents a description of the quality of match of the statistical matches used in the LIMTCP estimates prepared for Ghana and Tanzania. For Ghana, the statistical match combines the Living Standards Survey Round 6 (GLSS6) with the Ghana Time Use Survey (GTUS) 2009, and for Tanzania it combines the Household Budget Survey (THBS) […]
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Working Paper No. 871
August 09, 2016
Simulations of Employment for Individuals in LIMTCP Consumption-poor Households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
AbstractNew methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the tradeoff between paid […]
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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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Working Paper No. 859
February 01, 2016
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Measuring Gender Inequality
AbstractAgainst the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) conceptually reflects the loss in achievement due to inequality […]
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Research Project Report
September 22, 2015
The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty
AbstractProduced in partnership with the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and UN Women, this report examines the demand-side rationale for a public investment in the social care sector—specifically, early childhood care and preschool education (ECCPE)—by comparing its potential for job creation, pro-women allocation of jobs, and poverty reduction with an equivalent investment in […]
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Working Paper No. 838
May 28, 2015
Unpaid Work and the Economy
AbstractUnpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed as either “care” or as “work” by experts. This work is almost always unequally distributed between men and women, and if one includes both paid and unpaid work, women carry much more of the burden of work […]
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Working Paper No. 838
May 28, 2015
Οικονομία και μη αμειβόμενη εργασία
AbstractΗ μη αμειβόμενη εργασία, η οποία εμπίπτει εντός των γενικών ορίων παραγωγής, αλλά εκτός των λογαριασμών εθνικού εισοδήματος, θεωρείται από τους εμπειρογνώμονες είτε ως «φροντίδα» είτε ως «εργασία». Η μη αμειβόμενη εργασία κατανέμεται σχεδόν πάντα άνισα μεταξύ ανδρών και γυναικών ενώ, αν συμπεριλάβει κανείς τόσο την αμειβόμενη όσο και την μη αμειβόμενη εργασία, οι γυναίκες […]
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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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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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Working Paper No. 812
August 01, 2014
Time Use of Parents in the United States
AbstractFeminist 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. 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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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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