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44 publications found, searching for 'Incorporating Household Production '

• Working Paper No. 1093
  September 19, 2025

  “Trapped Inside a World of Labor”: Gender Gaps in Agricultural Productivity and Reproductive Labor in Malawi

  A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
  Abstract

  This paper investigates the relationship between the work of reproductive labor and the efficiency of gender-segmented farm production in Malawi. It starts by presenting quantitative estimates of the gender gap…more

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• Working Paper No. 1092
  September 19, 2025

  Recent Initiatives in Improving the Collection of Time-use Data for Measuring Work: Some Issues

  Indira Hirway
  Abstract

  Time-use data are expected to help in understanding and addressing critical socioeconomic concerns including gender inequalities in a country. The data also help in integrating gender into economic analysis and…more

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• Working Paper No. 1083
  June 26, 2025

  Integrating the Social Reproduction of Labor into Macroeconomic Theory: Unpaid Caregiving and Productivity in Paid Production

  Mark Setterfield
  Abstract

  The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the integration of unpaid caregiving in the household into short- and long-term macroeconomic theory and, in particular, the theoretical structure of…more

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• Working Paper No. 1018
  April 21, 2023

  The Unbearable Weight of Aging

  L. Randall Wray, Yeva Nersisyan, and Xinhua Liu
  Abstract

  The 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…more

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• Working Paper No. 983
  February 05, 2021

  Intrahousehold Allocation of Household Production

  Fernando Rios-Avila, Luiza Nassif Pires, and Abena D. Oduro
  Abstract

  In 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…more

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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…more

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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

  Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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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

  Erica Aloè
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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• Working Paper No. 966
  August 03, 2020

  Developing a Macro-Micro Model for Analyzing Gender Impacts of Public Policy

  Susan Himmelweit and Jerome De Henau
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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• Research Project Report
  April 01, 2019

  Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care in Kyrgyz Republic

  Kijong Kim and İpek Ilkkaracan
  Abstract

  Expansion 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…more

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• Policy Note No. 4
  May 31, 2018

  Wage Employment and the Prospects of Women’s Economic Empowerment

  Ajit Zacharias and Thomas Masterson
  Abstract

  In 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…more

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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…more

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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

  Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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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

  Thomas Masterson, Kijong Kim, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  New 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…more

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• Working Paper No. 865
  May 05, 2016

  Measuring Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires

  Rania Antonopoulos, Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Valeria Esquivel
  Abstract

  We 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…more

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• Working Paper No. 859
  February 01, 2016

  The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Measuring Gender Inequality

  Lekha S. Chakraborty and Bhavya Aggarwal
  Abstract

  Against 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…more

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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

  Kijong Kim, İpek Ilkkaracan, and Tolga Kaya
  Abstract

  Produced 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,…more

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• Working Paper No. 838
  May 28, 2015

  Οικονομία και μη αμειβόμενη εργασία

  Indira Hirway
  Abstract

  Η 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…more

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• Working Paper No. 838
  May 28, 2015

  Unpaid Work and the Economy

  Indira Hirway
  Abstract

  Unpaid 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…more

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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

  Kijong Kim, Tamar Khitarishvili, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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• Research Project Report
  August 28, 2014

  The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty in Korea

  Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Kijong Kim
  Abstract

  This 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…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 136
  August 28, 2014

  Can Child-care Subsidies Reduce Poverty?

  Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Kijong Kim
  Abstract

  In 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,…more

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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…more

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• Working Paper No. 806
  May 30, 2014

  The Great Recession and Unpaid Work Time in the United States

  Kijong Kim and Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  Poverty 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…more

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