Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre’s research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work and the size of care penalties. In
CWE-GAM Working Paper Series
WORKING PAPERS GENDER WAGE AND EQUITY AND INVESTMENTS IN CARE: MODELING EQUITY AND PRODUCTION Download Paper Date: October, 2020 Authors: Elissa Braunstein & Daniele Tavani
“Girly Issues” Are Now the Country’s Issues
Dr. Nancy Folbre, an Advisor and Researcher of the CWE-GAM project and a groundbreaking feminist economist was among the first to sound the alarm about the care crisis. Dr. Folbre’s
- Published in Child Care, COVID 19, Economic Recovery, Feminist Economics
CWE-GAM Annual Meeting – Day Three
Since 2017, the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project’s network of over 40 scholars worked together to conduct new research using the project’s field work data on paid workers
CWE-GAM Annual Meeting – Day Two
Since 2017, the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project’s network of over 40 scholars worked together to conduct new research using the project’s field work data on paid workers
CWE-GAM Annual Meeting – Day One
Since 2017, the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project’s network of over 40 scholars worked together to conduct new research using the project’s field work data on paid workers
CWE-GAM CONCLUDING ANNUAL MEETING
Since 2017, the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project’s network of over 40 scholars worked together to conduct new research using the project’s field work data on paid workers
CWE-GAM Methodological Reports
WORKING PAPERS GENDER WAGE AND EQUITY AND INVESTMENTS IN CARE: MODELING EQUITY AND PRODUCTION Download Paper Date: October, 2020 Authors: Elissa Braunstein & Daniele Tavani
How I Learned to Love Macro
I have despised macroeconomics–even relatively innovative, post-Keynesian, gender-infused versions—for many years, for two big reasons. First, macro remains largely focused on an output variable, Gross Domestic Product, that systematically mismeasures
- Published in Rethinking Macroeconomics
The Covid-19 Care Penalty
In the U.S., as elsewhere, essential workers have been rightly praised for their willingness to take on additional risk and stress. Their commitment to helping patients, students, and customers face-to-face
- Published in COVID 19, Feminist Economics