Why JoeCare Has a Chance
Happy Inauguration Day. We now have a president who wears a mask. Everywhere. Which is something to be grateful for. Hope was that the pandemic would help raise awareness of just how much we depend on...
View ArticleGender, Bargaining, and Build Back Better
Some Notes from Panel on The Economics of Gender and Households Southern Economic Association November 22, 2021 This, a great opportunity to cross-fertilize with some excellent economists who...
View ArticleThe Child Tax Credit, Singed if Not Combusted
The smoldering heat originates mostly from the coal-fired wealth of Joe Manchin, the Senator from West Virginia who continues to oppose the child tax credit on the grounds that mothers should be...
View ArticleGender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination
Shelly Lundberg gave a terrific paper at the session on Identity, Culture, and the Economics of Gender at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, January 8, 2022, and this is a distillation of...
View ArticleSeizing the Moment
Seizing the “Moment” for the Global Care Agenda: From Theory to Practice International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) event, January 25, 2022 Many thanks to IAFFE in general and Mary...
View ArticleSocial Capital vs. Social Climate
Social capital is a delightfully contradictory concept, which explains why academics kind of like it: So much room for elaboration and disputation, both qualitative and quantitative! Personally, I...
View ArticleFrom Dobbs v. Jackson to Rights v. Obligations
Lest we forget the time-hallowed misogyny fueling anti-abortion activism, the cartoon character known as Matt Gaetz pops up to remind us in Trumpian fashion that women who support abortion rights are...
View ArticleJustice in the Balance
Instead of trying to walk the tightrope known as work family balance, maybe we should seek work family justice—something we all deserve rather than something we are easily blamed for not achieving on...
View ArticleThe Escalating Cost of Care Services
So much talk about inflation–but not much about its disparate impacts. Nor do differences in the rate of price increases between “necessities” and “luxuries” get much attention. Data that I...
View ArticleCheck out Care Talk 2.0!
Both the archive and ongoing posts for this blog are now integrated into a new site as part of the Transforming Care in the Global Economy project. Please come along! Read more →
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