This 15-day course offered in partnership by the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project at American University and the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College to develop and enhance the skills in estimating care economies and developing gender-sensitive macroeconomic models for policy analysis. The course aims to engage with fellows to enhance capacity building in research and teaching of gender-sensitive economic analysis, with a focus on care and macroeconomic policy aspects. The course is built on four pillars: a) understanding and measuring the care economy; b) adapting social accounting matrices to account for paid and unpaid care activities; c) use of information from time-use surveys on unpaid care activities with other relevant sources and information such as national income accounts, labor force surveys and household or special surveys; and d) performing policy-relevant economic analyses that take systematic account of the interlinkages between care, macroeconomic processes, and distribution. This course is held virtually June 28 - July 17, 2021.
Topics Covered
Introduction to Gender Analysis in Economics and Feminist Economics
Gender Relations in Households
Gender Relations in the Labor Market
Demographic Change and Demand for Care
Defining and Measuring Care
Estimating Unpaid Care Sector: An Illustration
Paid Caregivers and the Market for Care
Social, Labor and Care Policies
Estimating Paid Care Sector: Illustration
Gender, Care and Macroeconomics: Introduction
Gender, Care and Macroeconomics: Growth and Distribution
Introduction to Social Accounting Matrices and Computable General Equilibrium Models
Levy Macro-Micro Model
Levy Macro-Micro Model: Overview and Policy Interventions
Levy Macro-Micro Model: Macro modeling of Policy Interventions
Levy Macro-Micro Model: Micro Modeling of Policy Interventions I—Employment Impacts
Levy Macro-Micro Model: Micro Modeling of Policy Interventions II—Time Use Impacts
Description of GEM-Care, CGE Model Focused on the Analysis of Care I
Description of GEM-Care, CGE Model Focused on the Analysis of Care II
GEM-Care Applications: Scenario Definition and Analysis of Results
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2021 Fellows
