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{"title":"Thanks to Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2276522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2276522","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Feminist Economics (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gender Happiness Gap in China: Composition Effect or Coefficient Effect?","authors":"Jidong Yang, Yunqi Zeng, Xianghong Wang","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2279212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2279212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"40 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: Evidence from Argentina, Chile and Paraguay","authors":"José Espinoza-Delgado, Jacques Silber","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2278798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2278798","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding why women are less financially literate than men is crucial for developing effective policies that decrease gender inequalities and improve women’s financial literacy, agency, and emp...","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender Differences in Opinions about Market Solutions and Government Interventions: The Case Of Uruguayan Economists","authors":"Verónica Amarante, Marisa Bucheli, Tatiana Pérez","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2262486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2262486","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores the differences in views between men and women Uruguayan economists regarding their opinions about market solutions and government interventions. In line with international evidence, the support for more market-oriented statements is lower among women than men. The study examines the role of age, family background, exposure to economic discussions (proxied by postgraduate education, reading of blogs and press, and academic environment), and personality traits (risk aversion, optimism, and preferences for competition) to explain these gender gaps. The results indicate that gender plays a role in shaping pro-market opinions. The gender differences remain significant after controlling for explanatory variables, though the magnitudes are mild. The findings indicate that achieving gender balance by including women in public debates and decision-making positions would improve the diversity of perspectives in economics.HIGHLIGHTS In Uruguay, women economists are less pro-market than their men colleagues.Personal traits, notably competitiveness, contribute to this gender gap.Including women in decision making improves diversity and quality of public policies.KEYWORDS: Gender gapeconomic opinionseconomistsJEL Codes: A11H00Z00 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe would like to express our thanks to Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica, Universidad de la República, that financed the survey of economists (SUE) used in this study and supported this research. We are grateful to Jorge Xavier (Universidad de la República), Alejandro Cid (Universidad de Montevideo), Néstor Gandelman (Universidad ORT), and Emiliano Tealde (Universidad Católica del Uruguay) whose support made possible to carry out a survey of economists.SUPPLEMENTAL DATASupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2262486.Notes1 Intergenerational mobility has historically been low in Latin America, though it has increased for recent cohorts (Neidhöfer, Serrano, and Gasparini Citation2018).2 The public university is Universidad de la República. The three private universities are: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Universidad de Montevideo, and Universidad ORT.3 We are aware that the correlation between self-assessments and experimental measures for these dimensions is a debated issue in the literature, but for the purpose of this research, this was the only feasible option.4 Given that the literature points out that a domain-general measure may not predict well across domains (Eckel Citation2019; Mandrik and Yeqing Citation2005; among others), we opted to include domain-specific measures. The traditional DOSPERT scale covers several domains, but it was not possible to include all as we needed to keep the number of questions at a reasonable number. We chose two specific domains, although this may entail a limitation of our work.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científi","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender, Race, and Class in an Intersectional Framework: Occupations and Wages in the United States","authors":"Olga Alonso-Villar, Coral del Río","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2255871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2255871","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractUsing family income as a class measure, this article explores whether gender and racial/ethnic gaps in hourly wages are the same across classes in the United States for 2015–2019. The study shows that the “mark of gender” extends beyond race/ethnicity and class. The conditional wages of women of any race/ethnicity are lower than those of any group of men of the same class (except that lower-class Asian women rank above lower-class Black men). Beyond differences in human capital, the wage disadvantage of Black and Hispanic workers, especially Black women, is (partially) associated with class stratification. Additionally, the study explores the role of occupations in explaining whether a group’s wage is above or below average. Black women’s wage disadvantage stems from occupational sorting, regardless of class. However, among White and Hispanic women, occupational sorting and underpayment within occupations are equally important. Occupational sorting does not seem to penalize Asian women.HIGHLIGHTS Intersectional analysis shows that in the US, class shapes the labor experiences of women and men of different racial/ethnic groups.Class limits White women’s progress in the labor market.Black women are overrepresented in the lower class beyond their educational levels.Occupational barriers are especially strong for Black women even in the upper class.Racial differences in conditional wages among same-class groups of women are small.Keywords: ClassgenderraceethnicityoccupationsearningsJEL Codes: D63J70J16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe also want to thank the anonymous referees and the associate editor for helpful comments.SUPPLEMENTAL DATASupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2255871.Notes1 Eric Plutzer and John Zipp (Citation2001) advocate for the use of “individuals in families” as the adequate unit of class analysis, taking the expression from earlier works.2 For a review of this literature, see Joseph Altonji and Rebecca Blank (Citation1999).3 Our approach implies disregarding intrahousehold inequalities in well-being.4 Stephen Rose (Citation2020) sets the upper bound at 17.5 times the poverty line because he defines the rich as those at the top 1 percent of the income distribution.5 Note that, when building classes based on the poverty line, we do not have to convert household income into equivalent income because there are different lines for the households depending on their sizes and compositions.6 Although the occupational classification accounts for 458 categories, there is no employment data for thirty-two of them during the 2015–2019 period.7 The “self-employed not incorporated” and the “unpaid family members” are not included in our sample. The workers whose wages belong to the trimmed first and 99 percentile tails mentioned earlier are also eliminated.8 Single-person households and individuals who do not live with either a partner or relatives are considered single-person families. In","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"109 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Time-use Agency Scale: Development and Validation of a Measure for Ghana and Beyond","authors":"Sheela Sinharoy, Yuk Fai Cheong, Greg Seymour, Jessica Heckert, Erin R. Johnson, Kathryn M. Yount","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2262476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2262476","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractGlobal health and development interventions often are predicated on the reallocation of women's time for the achievement of program objectives; yet research and programs have paid limited attention to women's preferences for and agency over their time use. This study aims to develop and validate an instrument to measure time-use agency. It follows a sequenced approach involving qualitative and quantitative research, with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and assessment of concurrent validity. The authors conducted surveys with women and men within an impact assessment of a livelihoods program being implemented across rural districts in Ghana. Results indicate a three-factor model with subscales for intrinsic time-use agency, voice related to time use, and decision making related to time use, which were each positively correlated with an item on satisfaction with time use. This time-use agency scale should be validated widely and used within global health and development programs.HIGHLIGHTS In Ghana, time poverty, often a proxy for disempowerment, does not alone provide a full picture of women's quality of time use.Time-use agency is a more direct measure of exercising choice over the allocation of one's time.Time-use agency is a necessary component of empowerment processes.A survey instrument that measures time-use agency should be used alongside customary time-use surveys.KEYWORDS: Time usetime povertyempowermentGhanadevelopmentmixed methodsJEL Codes: I18J16J22 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe thank the Rural Enterprises Program – Phase III (REP-III) and DevtPlan Consult, our data collection partner in Ghana, along with the cadre of enumerators who administered our time-use agency survey module. We additionally thank the Value Chain Development Program, Sarah Eissler, and the interviewers who facilitated cognitive interviews for our module in Nigeria. We thank the women and men who participated in cognitive interviews to test early versions of our survey module in Nigeria as well as those who responded to our survey module in Ghana, without whom this study would not have been possible.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [Grant number: #2000002043], via sub award to Emory University [Grant number: 2019X197.UE, Site PI: Yount].Notes on contributorsSheela SinharoySheela Sinharoy, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Her research focuses on the nutrition of women and children, especially in relation to agriculture and food security; gender, empowerment, and social inclusion; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and household air pollution. Her work uses inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches to address complex problems. Methodologically, she is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Dr","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"12 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135462365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender and Generation: Landownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy","authors":"Hope Xu Yan, Sonalde Desai, Debasis Barik","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2255878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2255878","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWhile increased access to household assets has been shown to improve older individuals’ autonomy and bargaining power at home, the role of gender hierarchy in shaping differential impacts of household assets has received far less attention. This article explores the gender asymmetry in the association of older people’s (age 60 years or more) decision-making power at home and survival probability with their ownership of and managerial control over agricultural land in rural India. Using data from the India Human Development Survey, results find that in multi-generational households, landownership at the household level is associated with higher decision-making power and survival probability for older men but not for older women. Among older women, the relationship between household landownership and decision-making power is positive when they have clearly established titles to the land or managerial control but negative when their names are not on the land title.HIGHLIGHTS Landownership is an important source of old age security in India.Agricultural land in India is typically controlled by the patriarch; women rarely own or control household land.The generational power conferred on older men with landownership does not apply to older women to the same degree.It is crucial to register household land under women’s names and recognize women as actual landowners.KEYWORDS: Landownershipgender inequalityolder Indiansdecision-making powermortalityJEL Codes: J16J14Q15 Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [grant number INV-003352]; Foundation for the National Institutes of Health [grant number R01HD041455]; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation [grant number 2018–7924].Notes on contributorsHope Xu YanHope Xu Yan is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and Graduate Research Assistant of the India Human Development Survey. Yan holds a MSc in Gender and a MA in Sociology.Sonalde DesaiSonalde Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park with a joint appointment as Professor and Centre Director, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi. Desai holds a PhD in Sociology and is a social demographer by training.Debasis BarikDebasis Barik is Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. Barik holds a PhD in Population Studies and is a demographer by training. His research focuses around the issues of gender, health inequality, and social demography.","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136034389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keeping Girls in Schools Longer: The Kanyashree Approach in India","authors":"Gitanjali Sen, Dhanushka Thamarapani","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2263542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2263542","url":null,"abstract":"Regarding interventions aimed at preventing girls from prematurely dropping out of schools, this study shows that inducing economic empowerment of girls is possible with targeted policies that promote their reproductive empowerment. Using Kanyashree Prakalpa, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in West Bengal, India, that directly incentivized school attendance to delay child marriage, the study finds a strong association between program participation and successfully lowering the historically higher dropout rates post-middle school. Program-eligible girls are 12 percent (7 percent) more likely to be enrolled in or to complete secondary (higher secondary) school, respectively. Program participation is associated with approximately five more months of education. In fact, the efficacy of the program is highly correlated with the length of exposure, and the most benefits are reaped by children in the poorest households. The article discusses three policy interventions, including directly targeting girls as they transition from childhood to young adulthood. HIGHLIGHTS In West Bengal, Kanyashree Prakalpa, a unique cash incentive program, links educational empowerment with girls’ reproductive empowerment. Program participation is strongly associated with successfully lowering the historically higher dropout rates post-middle school. Policies directly targeting adolescent girls are fruitful compared to indirect influence. Policies complementing the cash transfer with other programs based on the girls’ academic achievement are useful.","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"3 1","pages":"36 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women’s Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe","authors":"Lara Maestripieri","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2251991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2251991","url":null,"abstract":"The rate of involuntary part-time work among women has increased sharply. Scholars have demonstrated its links with diminished career opportunities, deteriorated working conditions, and low pay at an individual level. However, less attention has been paid to the effects of these contracts on economic security at the household level. This article investigates to what extent women being in part-time work involuntarily hinders their household’s ability to attain reasonable living standards and examines whether this would be any different if women were in part-time employment voluntarily. The results show that part-time work in itself does not necessarily constitute a threat to household economic security, but when it is involuntary, part-time employment jeopardizes a household’s financial well-being. This occurs in countries that deregulated peripheral corners of their labor markets, or “dualized” countries such as Italy, Spain, and France, and fully liberalized countries, such as Switzerland and the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gendered Relationship Between Temporary, Informal Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Turkish Labor Market","authors":"Anil Duman","doi":"10.1080/13545701.2023.2249000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2249000","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relationship between types of employment and wages by gender and gender pay gaps among permanent, temporary, and informal workers. There are substantial gender inequalities in bargaining, and these inequalities are argued to be more prevalent for temporary and informal jobs. Hence, larger wage penalties for women in such positions are expected. Moreover, the inverse association between wages and non-permanent contracts is larger for low-paid women. To this end, the study employs unconditional quantile regression techniques and counterfactual decomposition analysis, and accounts for selection bias. The dataset is based on labor force surveys over the period 2005–19 in Turkey and focuses on private sector employees. The findings highlight the disproportionate impact of temporary and informal employment on women’s earnings and suggest that employment type can be a contributing factor to the gender pay gap in Turkey, particularly for low wage groups.","PeriodicalId":47715,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Economics","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}