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Isaac M. Mbiti, University of Virginia
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The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
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John Eason, University of Wisconsin
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Punishment is Purple: The Political Economy of Prison Building
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Gustavo Bobonis, University of Toronto
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A Helping Hand Goes a Long Way: Long-Term Effects of Counseling and Support to Workfare Program Participants
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Econ Seminar: Conrad Miller, University of California Berkeley
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The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
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Susan Parker contributes to WSJ story on Mexico's Prospera program
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Widely copied program cut by new government
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Philip Cohen comments on the rising co-living arrangements
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Sharing households seems to be the solution facing rising housing costs in Miami
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Dylan Roby comments on California’s new contract worker law
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Companies challenge the new contract worker law by cutting down their working hours
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Sacoby Wilson featured in Bloomberg on environmental injustice
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Congressional Black Caucus members called on to fight environmental injustice affecting poor black neighborhoods
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The Economic Gap Among Women in Time Spent on Housework in Former West Germany and Sweden
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The quantitative scholarship on domestic labor has documented the existence of a gender gap in its performance in all countries for which data are available. Only recently have researchers begun to analyze economic disparities among women in their time spent doing housework, and their studies have been largely limited to the U.S. We extend this line of inquiry using data from two European countries, the former West Germany and Sweden. We estimate the “economic gap” in women’s housework time, which we define as the difference between the time spent by women at the lowest and highest deciles of their own earnings. We expect this gap to be smaller in Sweden given its celebrated success at reducing both gender and income inequality. Though Swedish women do spend less time on domestic labor, however, and though there is indeed less earnings inequality among them, the economic gap in their housework is only a little smaller than among women in the former West Germany. In both places, a significant negative association between women’s individual earnings and their housework time translates into economic gaps of more than 2.5 hours per week. Moreover, in both countries, women at the highest earnings decile experience a gender gap in housework that is smaller by about 4 hours per week compared to their counterparts at the lowest decile.
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Liana C. Sayer, Ph.D.
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Liana Sayer Publications
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Melissa Kearney featured in The Hill on Yang's "Freedom Dividend"
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Yang's Freedom Dividend is not likely to reduce social inequality seriously
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