Special Projects
Below is a list of associated Special Projects.
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Hewlett Foundation–Levy Institute Project
This project uses a multi-country and multilevel study design to examine women’s economic empowerment through the lens of their control over time spent on income-generating activities, household production activities, and personal care.
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics Project
This project developed an empirical methodology to extend the consumer expenditure data collected by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by incorporating household production.
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Levy Institute-UNDP Projects
This project explored the impact of public employment guarantee strategies on gender equality and pro-poor economic development in India and South Africa.
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Ford-Levy Institute Project
This multi-year grant was awarded to conduct research on the nature and dynamics of the crisis in the US subprime mortgage market, generate a new regulatory framework to address it, and explore alternative methods of providing a government safety net in times of financial crisis.
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INET-Levy Institute Project
This project brought together two research paradigms—the Keynes-Minsky and Schumpeter-Minsky visions—that have strong policy relevance in understanding the causes of the global financial crisis, and also the path to a postcrisis long-run recovery.
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Greek Labour Institute Partnership
A partnership of the Levy Institute and the Labour Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (INE-GSEE) to realize greater social-sector employment opportunities in Greece.