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Research Project ReportMay 20, 2025
Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care Services in Jordan
AbstractWritten in October 2022, through a collaboration between Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and the Levy Economics Institute in New York by Ipek Ilkkaracan (ITU), Ayse Aylin Bayar (ITU), Luiza Nassif…more
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Research Project ReportMarch 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…more
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Research Project ReportJune 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…more
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Research Project ReportJuly 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…more
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Research Project ReportSeptember 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)….more
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Research Project ReportApril 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…more
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Research Project ReportAugust 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…more
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Research Project ReportApril 17, 2018
Public Service Employment
AbstractDespite reports of a healthy US labor market, millions of Americans remain unemployed and underemployed, or have simply given up looking for work. It is a problem that plagues our…more
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Research Project ReportFebruary 06, 2018
The Macroeconomic Effects of Student Debt Cancellation
AbstractAmong the more ambitious policies that have been proposed to address the problem of escalating student loan debt are various forms of debt cancellation. In this report, Scott Fullwiler, Research…more
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Research Project ReportSeptember 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,…more
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Research Project ReportApril 06, 2015
Reforming the Fed’s Policy Response in the Era of Shadow Banking
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the…more
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Research Project ReportAugust 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…more
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Research Project ReportMay 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…more
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Research Project ReportApril 11, 2014
Federal Reserve Bank Governance and Independence during Financial Crisis
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the…more
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Research Project ReportApril 10, 2013
The Lender of Last Resort: A Critical Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Unprecedented Intervention after 2007
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the…more
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Research Project ReportDecember 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…more
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Research Project ReportAugust 16, 2012
Why Time Deficits Matter
AbstractCustomarily, income poverty incidence is judged by the ability of individuals and households to gain access to some level of minimum income based on the premise that such access ensures…more
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Research Project ReportApril 10, 2012
Using Minsky to Simplify Financial Regulation
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Institute’s research program on Financial Instability and the Reregulation of Financial Institutions and Markets, funded by the Ford Foundation. Its purpose is to investigate…more
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Research Project ReportApril 10, 2012
Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the…more
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Research Project ReportApril 12, 2011
Minsky on the Reregulation and Restructuring of the Financial System
AbstractThis monograph is part of the Institute’s ongoing research program on Financial Instability and the Reregulation of Financial Institutions and Markets, funded by the Ford Foundation. This program’s purpose is…more
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Research Project ReportNovember 16, 2009
Has Progress Been Made in Alleviating Racial Economic Inequality?
AbstractReports of a postracial society may be premature. Studies continue to show wide racial gaps in income and, especially, wealth; although there is some evidence that income gaps have shrunk…more
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Research Project ReportApril 09, 2009
New Estimates of Economic Inequality in America, 1959—2004
AbstractIn this latest LIMEW report, the authors present new evidence on the pattern of economic inequality in the United States that indicates higher inequality in 2004 than in 1959. According…more
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Research Project ReportFebruary 19, 2009
What Are the Long-Term Trends in Intergroup Economic Disparities?
AbstractOver the last half century, government policy has had an important hand in alleviating disparities among population subgroups in the United States; for example, special tax treatment for families with…more
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Research Project ReportFebruary 03, 2009
Postwar Trends in Economic Well-Being in the United States,1959–2004
AbstractThe Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) is a more comprehensive measure than either gross money income or extended income because it includes estimates of public consumption and household…more
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