IAFFE 2021 Annual Conference
RETHINKING MACROECONOMICS
ABOUT RETHINKING MACROECONOMICS The Rethinking Macroeconomics Working Group is bringing gender dimensions into macroeconomic models, particularly in the case of care provisioning. Researchers in the Rethinking Macroeconomics Cluster are working
Policy Briefs
Options for modeling the distributional impact of care policies using a general equilibrium (cge) framework Download Policy Brief Brief prepared by: Marzia Fontana, Binderiya Byambasuren & Carmen Estrades Economy-wide
Our Research Team
Research
Care Work and the Economy is producing new research and developing innovative analytic tools to advance our understanding of care work –care of children, the sick and disabled, and the elderly and to demonstrate how integrating care into policy tools such as macromodels provide a more comprehensive understanding of policy impacts on growth, distribution, and gender equality. Our research agenda has three main components: 1) Rethinking Macroeconomics, 2) Understanding and Measuring Care, 3) Gender-Aware Applied Modelling.