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EventWell-being Costs of Unpaid Care: Gendered Evidence from a Contextualized Time-use Survey in India
UPDATE: Postponed to Spring 2024 Sign up for updates Join us for our second session with Aashima Sinha, Research Scholar, Levy Institute, Bard College, on Wednesday, November 15, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Sinha’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in […] -
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Working the Program: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
Join us for our second session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. McKim presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […] -
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What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics
Join us for our third session with Sarah Small, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, on Monday, March 4, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Small’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to […] -
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Critiquing from the Margins: Examining the Power of Black Girls™ Critiques of Class-Based Disparities in Schools
Join us for our fourth session with Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Thursday, March 28, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Pujols’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […] -
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Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil
Join us for our sixth session with Lygia Sabbag Fares, Economics Professor at John Jay College (City University of New York - CUNY), on Monday, April 29, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. -
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Queering Economics: Diversity and Inclusion in the Dismal Science
Join us for our fifth session with Michael Martell, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, on Tuesday, April 16th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Martell’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […] -
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Phillips Curve Still Alive for Compensation?
On reading a recent post by Ed Dolan at Economonitor with some evidence of the lack of a strong Phillips relationship for consumer-price inflation in US data, it occurred to me to try a measure of total compensation per hour with recent data. The wage relationship estimated over all available quarters, using averaged monthly observations [...] -
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What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
Previously we have argued that “taxes drive money” in the sense that imposition of a tax that is payable in the national government’s own currency will create demand for that currency. Sovereign government does not really need revenue in its own currency in order to spend. This sounds shocking because we are so accustomed to [...] -
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Is Inequality Holding Back the Recovery?
“The biggest obstacle to a sustainable recovery,” according to the Levy Institute’s newest strategic analysis of the US economy, “is the inequality in the distribution of income.” In their latest, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Michalis Nikiforos, Gennaro Zezza, and Greg Hannsgen begin with a familiar point: the Congressional Budget Office has been predicting fairly rosy economic growth [...] -
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An Employment Safety Net for Youth
Pavlina Tcherneva participated in a conference on youth unemployment at Middlebury College and shared her ideas for a youth employment safety net (beginning at 38:45): [iframe src=”//player.vimeo.com/video/89719577?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”450″ height=”253″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe] -
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Is the Eurozone Crisis Really Over?
Economic pundits who predicted the collapse of the euro at the start of the eurozone crisis have been proven wrong. But those who say the crisis is over are equally wrong. Four years after the start of the euro crisis, the bailed-out countries of the eurozone (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) are still facing serious [...] -
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Bubbles and Piketty: An Interview with L. Randall Wray
L. Randall Wray appeared on Thom Hartmann’s radio show yesterday for a lengthy and wide-ranging interview: [iframe width=”480″ height=”270″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/q8YND_N_6ms?feature=player_detailpage” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe]