HIGHLIGHTS

Article highlights briefly convey key findings, main points, and policy implications.

Recent Articles:

Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility Choices in Rural Senegal and Uganda – Kaat Van Hoyweghen, Goedele Van den Broeck & Miet Maertens
  • Analyzing spousal fertility and child-raising choices provides an alternative to traditional proxies for intrahousehold decision making.
  • Choice experimental data and methods enables the calculation of a decision-making coefficient.
  • Individual fertility preferences cannot substitute for household-level choices.
  • Considering the adequate gender and decision-making unit is crucial in designing family planning programs.
Long work hours and long commutes in the Greater Accra region of Ghana: Time Poverty and Gender – Fiona Carmichael, Patricia Daley, Christian Darko, Jo Duberley, Marco Ercolani, Tim Schwanen & Daniel Wheatley
  • Time poverty limits time for leisure, sleep, and personal care, impacting life quality.
  • In the Greater Accra Region, working days are long, averaging over twelve hours and commuting times add on average two hours to the working day.
  • Women’s working days are 0.8 h longer, and they are more likely to be time poor.
  • Women’s time poverty reflects longer hours in unpaid household work.
  • Self-employed women with no employees are among the most time poor.
  • Gender wage gap is wider among precarious workers in China.
  • Marxist-feminist theories help us to better understand GWG in precarious work.
  • Women in precarious work face income loss risks and heavier domestic responsibilities.
  • Developmentalist social reproduction regime seeks to balance growth and reproduction.
  • The cost of social reproduction should be shifted back to capital.
  • Gender diagnostic estimation can be used to endogenously measure gender.
  • Separate model approaches and CARTs are useful in intersectional work.
  • Econometric models can be structured so they are “studying up.”
  • Oaxaca–Blinder and PCA methods raise some feminist concerns.
  • Cohen’s D and the Index of Similarity can be used to test gender differences.

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