Research Teams Awarded Funding to Produce Theoretical Gender-Aware Macromodels
The Care Work and Economy project has awarded five research teams funding to produce theoretical gender-aware macromodels that incorporate care in the development context. Each team contributes to one of
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Cem Oyvat
Cem Oyvat received his Phd in Economics from University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 2014 with dissertation titled “Essays on the Evolution of Inequality”. His research interests include development economics,
Eurydice (Evrydiki) Fotopoulou
Eurydice Fotopoulou is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Eurydice’s research focuses on gender and macroeconomics, and in particular structular models that investigate income and wealth distribution inequality. She
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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.