Feminist Economics
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Feminist Economics, journal of IAFFE. Provides an international forum for economic debate, supporting research oriented towards improving human well-being.
Luis E. Escalante introduces a gender-aware economywide model to evaluate the effects of climate disasters and mitigation policies in Bolivia.
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Climate Disasters, Gender, and Poverty: Toward Inclusive Disaster Response in Bolivia
Using data from social accounting matrices and household surveys, this study introduces a gender-aware economywide model to evaluate the effects of climate disasters and mitigation policies in Boli...
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September 20, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Luis E. Escalante introduces a gender-aware economywide model to evaluate the effects of climate disasters and mitigation policies in Bolivia.
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Elena Calvo-Calvo, Rosa Duarte & Cristina Sarasa develop a multiregional input-output model for Europe to estimate carbon emissions embodied in household consumption by the gender of the main earner, as well as other characteristics.
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The “Scissors Curve” Between Gender and Income: How Economic Inequality can Shape Carbon Footprints in Europe
Households with a female primary breadwinner represent a growing proportion of households in Europe. Consistent with research on gendered economic inequalities, female-headed households are highly ...
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September 20, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Elena Calvo-Calvo, Rosa Duarte & Cristina Sarasa develop a multiregional input-output model for Europe to estimate carbon emissions embodied in household consumption by the gender of the main earner, as well as other characteristics.
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Meltem Dayıoğlu & Sezgin Polat examine occupational gender segregation and considers its impact on wages in Turkey.
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Higher Participation but Lower Pay? Occupational Segregation and the Wage Penalty in Turkey
Women's labor market participation rate in Turkey hit its lowest value in the mid-2000s at 23 percent and has been rising since then. The latest statistics put this figure at 35.1 percent. Just as ...
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September 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Meltem Dayıoğlu & Sezgin Polat examine occupational gender segregation and considers its impact on wages in Turkey.
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Shalise S. Ayromloo explores the impact of labor market changes, especially those resulting from shifts in labor demand, on US gender norms between 1977 and 2016.
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Frailty, Thy Name is Still Woman? The Impact of Local Labor Demand Shocks on the Prevalence of Traditional Attitudes in the US
The substantial increase in women’s participation in the US economy marks a major shift in labor markets over the past century. Building on this context, this article explores the impact of labor m...
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September 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Shalise S. Ayromloo explores the impact of labor market changes, especially those resulting from shifts in labor demand, on US gender norms between 1977 and 2016.
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Michael Rogan, Tamaryn Friderichs & Stephanie Merrick investigate gender gaps in the informal sector with a particular focus on own-account self-employment in South Africa.
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The Gender Earnings Gap and Informal Sector Self-Employment in the South African Labor Market
The informal economy is an important site of gender inequality yet there has been comparatively little research on the gender earnings gap in contexts with relatively high levels of informal self-e...
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September 20, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Michael Rogan, Tamaryn Friderichs & Stephanie Merrick investigate gender gaps in the informal sector with a particular focus on own-account self-employment in South Africa.
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Gaurav Dhamija, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha & Sanket Roy evaluate the impact of neighborhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence on own attitudes using nationally representative data from the fifth wave of the National Family Health Survey of India.
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Attitudes and Norms About Intimate Partner Violence: What Makes Women More Impressionable?
This article evaluates the causal impact of average neighborhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence (IPV) on own attitudes using nationally representative data from the fifth wave of th...
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September 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Gaurav Dhamija, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha & Sanket Roy evaluate the impact of neighborhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence on own attitudes using nationally representative data from the fifth wave of the National Family Health Survey of India.
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By integrating the historical geography of foot-binding with Buck's survey on rural women's paid work, Ying Dai suggests that high prevalence of foot-binding could coexist with high FLFPRs in textile regions but is correlated with low FLFPRs in agricultural areas.
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Locating Foot-Binding: its Prolonged Exit from Chinese Women's Working Lives in The Twentieth Century
This article highlights the prolonged exit of foot-binding from Chinese women's working lives: it still significantly restricted women's participation in agricultural production as late as 1982. Ba...
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September 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
By integrating the historical geography of foot-binding with Buck's survey on rural women's paid work, Ying Dai suggests that high prevalence of foot-binding could coexist with high FLFPRs in textile regions but is correlated with low FLFPRs in agricultural areas.
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Lina Moe & Robert Noble examine why wage inequality persists in one of the world’s most progressive, high-wage urban economies.
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If You Can Make it Here, You Still Earn Less: Gender Wage Gaps and Occupational Segregation in New York City
New York City, long a leader in pay-equity policy, presents a paradox: despite adopting salary-history bans, pay-transparency laws, and family-leave programs, its gender pay gap has stalled over th...
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August 27, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Lina Moe & Robert Noble examine why wage inequality persists in one of the world’s most progressive, high-wage urban economies.
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Using a mixed-methods approach, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler & Einat Lavee identify factors driving women into paid domestic work, in varying degrees of informality, when similar formal sector jobs are available.
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Marginalized Agency or Agency at The Margins: Domestic Workers and Informality
Informal employment among local women in high-income countries is persistent but understudied. Using a mixed-methods approach, this article identifies factors driving women into paid domestic work,...
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August 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Using a mixed-methods approach, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler & Einat Lavee identify factors driving women into paid domestic work, in varying degrees of informality, when similar formal sector jobs are available.
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Utilizing India’s first nationally representative Time Use Survey, Sila Mishra hypothesizes that widows and married women have different fallback positions and experience different responsibilities and constraints in intrahousehold time allocation.
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“White in the Moon the Long Road Lies, that leads me from My Love”: Widow’s Time use in India
Bereavement impacts the quality of life of the near ones, especially the spouse who has lost their immediate source of coping and support; yet how widows spend their time is underexplored in the ca...
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August 18, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Utilizing India’s first nationally representative Time Use Survey, Sila Mishra hypothesizes that widows and married women have different fallback positions and experience different responsibilities and constraints in intrahousehold time allocation.
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Antonio Merino & Yasmín Salazar Méndez estimate a Poisson-Gamma model with data from the Living
Conditions Survey. The results suggest that girls spend more time on domestic work than boys.
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Conditions Survey. The results suggest that girls spend more time on domestic work than boys.
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August 18, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Antonio Merino & Yasmín Salazar Méndez estimate a Poisson-Gamma model with data from the Living
Conditions Survey. The results suggest that girls spend more time on domestic work than boys.
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Conditions Survey. The results suggest that girls spend more time on domestic work than boys.
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@hortasricom.bsky.social & Vicente Rios investigate the relationship between women’s political empowerment and income inequality in a global sample of 142 countries from 1990 to 2019.
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August 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
@hortasricom.bsky.social & Vicente Rios investigate the relationship between women’s political empowerment and income inequality in a global sample of 142 countries from 1990 to 2019.
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Jeff Powell & Diane Elson discuss the channels through which monetary policy can impact gender equality and women’s well-being and ways through which monetary policy targets and instruments can become more supportive of gender equality.
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Engendering Monetary Policy
Inflation-targeting monetary policy based on the New Keynesian Economic framework has been an obstacle to fiscal stimulus, employment, and growth, reducing public investment in equality supporting ...
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Jeff Powell & Diane Elson discuss the channels through which monetary policy can impact gender equality and women’s well-being and ways through which monetary policy targets and instruments can become more supportive of gender equality.
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Raphael A. Espinoza, Jonathan D. Ostry & Chris Papageorgiou show that women and men are far from being perfect substitutes in production by estimating the elasticity of substitution between female and male labor.
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The Armistice of the Sexes: Gender Complementarities in the Production Function
Most macroeconomic and growth accounting models assume that male and female workers are perfectly substitutable in the aggregate production function. Whether this assumption is valid is an empirica...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Raphael A. Espinoza, Jonathan D. Ostry & Chris Papageorgiou show that women and men are far from being perfect substitutes in production by estimating the elasticity of substitution between female and male labor.
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Clara Mendonça Saliba reviews "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" by Misty L. Heggeness.
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Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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August 11, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Clara Mendonça Saliba reviews "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" by Misty L. Heggeness.
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Daniel MacDonald & Yasemin Dildar document differences in the probability of exiting employment between mothers and fathers between 1978 and 2023 using linked Current Population Survey microdata.
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Uneven Progress: Marital Status and The Motherhood Penalty in The United States, 1978–2023
Parenthood accounts for most of the current gender earnings gap in the United States. While many factors explain mothers’ lower earnings compared to fathers’, employment outcomes play a key role: a...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Daniel MacDonald & Yasemin Dildar document differences in the probability of exiting employment between mothers and fathers between 1978 and 2023 using linked Current Population Survey microdata.
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Sarah Khan & Stephan Klasen explore how domestic violence (DV) and employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in developing economies.
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Women’s Employment and Spousal Abuse: A Parallel Cross-Country Analysis of Thirty-Five Developing Countries
This study explores how domestic violence (DV) and employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in developing economies. Using microdata from thirty-five countries, the effect of wome...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Sarah Khan & Stephan Klasen explore how domestic violence (DV) and employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in developing economies.
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Stefan Klonner, Sumantra Pal & Christiane Schwieren identify the Dimasa as a society in India where women and men have had similar rights from time immemorial to conduct the first lab-in-the-field experiment in a traditional society with gender-balanced norms.
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Equality of the Sexes and Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from a Traditional Society with Gender-Balanced Norms
Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender gap in competitiveness? This article identifies the Dimasa as a society in India where women and men have had similar rights and entitlements fr...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Stefan Klonner, Sumantra Pal & Christiane Schwieren identify the Dimasa as a society in India where women and men have had similar rights from time immemorial to conduct the first lab-in-the-field experiment in a traditional society with gender-balanced norms.
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Olivier Bargain & Maria C. Lo Bue shed new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labor market.
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The Economic Gains of Closing The Employment Gender Gap: Evidence from Morocco
This article sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labor market. The study confronts two different approaches based on simulating the effects of reducing...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Olivier Bargain & Maria C. Lo Bue shed new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labor market.
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Özlem Onaran & @cemoyvat.bsky.social analyze the impact of public spending in the care economy and the green
economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model.
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economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model.
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The Effects of Public Spending in the Care and Green Economies: The Case of South Korea
This article analyzes the impact of public spending in the care economy and the green economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector au...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Özlem Onaran & @cemoyvat.bsky.social analyze the impact of public spending in the care economy and the green
economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model.
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economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model.
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Reposted by Feminist Economics
Our new paper is out in Feminist Economics @feministeconomics.bsky.social. Using linked CPS data (1978–2023), we show that the motherhood employment penalty has declined but progress has been highly unequal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Uneven Progress: Marital Status and The Motherhood Penalty in The United States, 1978–2023
Parenthood accounts for most of the current gender earnings gap in the United States. While many factors explain mothers’ lower earnings compared to fathers’, employment outcomes play a key role: a...
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August 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Our new paper is out in Feminist Economics @feministeconomics.bsky.social. Using linked CPS data (1978–2023), we show that the motherhood employment penalty has declined but progress has been highly unequal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Melanie Long examines how monetary policy influences wealth by race, gender, and household structure in the US from 1984 to 2007.
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The Effects of US Monetary Policy on Household Wealth by Race and Gender
Black households in the United States – particularly those headed by women – hold a fraction of the wealth of White households. Little is known about US monetary policy’s possible impact on these d...
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July 23, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Melanie Long examines how monetary policy influences wealth by race, gender, and household structure in the US from 1984 to 2007.
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Débora Machado Nunes reviews "Economia Feminista no Brasil: Contribuições para Pensar uma Nova Sociedade", edited
by Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera, and Clarice Menezes Vieira.
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by Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera, and Clarice Menezes Vieira.
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Economia Feminista no Brasil: Contribuições para Pensar uma Nova Sociedade
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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July 23, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Débora Machado Nunes reviews "Economia Feminista no Brasil: Contribuições para Pensar uma Nova Sociedade", edited
by Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera, and Clarice Menezes Vieira.
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by Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera, and Clarice Menezes Vieira.
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Noémie Sonneville reviews "The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres in Political Economy and Economics: Gender Equality and Classical Liberalism", by Giandomenica Becchio.
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The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres in Political Economy and Economics: Gender Equality and Classical Liberalism
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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July 23, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Noémie Sonneville reviews "The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres in Political Economy and Economics: Gender Equality and Classical Liberalism", by Giandomenica Becchio.
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Stefania Tapia Marchina reviews "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction", by @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
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Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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July 15, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Stefania Tapia Marchina reviews "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction", by @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
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