Leila Gautham
@leilagautham.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leeds. PhD from UMass Amherst. Labour economist. Inequality, care, gender, and time use. https://sites.google.com/view/leilagautham/research https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1580/dr-leila-gautham
Families in the U.S. need a care package! Check this one out along with other game-changing policy proposals at peri.umass.edu/publication/...
The Care Package: Support for Family Care Provision in the U.S.
Introduction and Overview Every day in the United States, millions of people wake up and face a version of the same impossible arithmetic. They need to earn income. They also need to care for their ch...
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My former job market paper has been published in the Journal of Economic History! This paper follows women in the US South as they migrated from the farm to the city in the early twentieth century. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940 | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940
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The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care www.dollarsandsense.org/the-shrinkin...
The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care
Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the ...
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Leeds University Business School (LUBS) are offering two‑year Post Doctoral Fellowship Schemes. The Economics department at LUBS is committed to pluralism and conducts research along a range of theories and methods, including macro-finance. Deadline is 31 May. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Faculty Post Doctoral Fellowships, Leeds University Business School
Are you an aspiring researcher looking to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities and receive a structured programme of support? Do you have a research backgrou...
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Economists typically measure inequality by looking at income. But what happens when you factor in the dollar value of unpaid housework? A new study suggests that accounting reduces the amount of inequality in America – but still shows inequality growing. theconversation.com/when-unpaid-...
When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965
Women’s unpaid work at home has declined much more than men’s contributions have increased.
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When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, US income inequality shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965. Leila Gautham & Nancy Folbre in the JPubE report that declining household production implies inequality in living standards has expanded more than standard data suggest!
Leila Gautham@leilagautham.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵 What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption? Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186
theconversation.com/when-unpaid-... @leilagautham.bsky.social Also, inflation bites harder now than in the past--a larger share of total household consumption of goods and services is purchased in the market. No wonder people are feeling broke!
When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965
Women’s unpaid work at home has declined much more than men’s contributions have increased.
theconversation.com
New paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵 What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption? Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186
Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018
We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…
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New working paper!⏰ “Not All Leisure Is Created Equal: Income-Induced Constraints on the Enjoyment of Leisure” ✍️ @leilagautham.bsky.social Clemens Hetschko & Peter Howley The paper demonstrates that higher income enhances the enjoyment individuals derive from leisure. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest. #feministeconomics www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...
The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”
Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.
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🆕 The gender pay gap in South Africa: Firms, formality and churn Today on VoxDev, Ihsaan Bassier (@uniofsurrey.bsky.social) & @leilagautham.bsky.social (@universityofleeds.bsky.social) discuss the dynamics of the gender pay gap in South Africa: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
The gender pay gap in South Africa: Firms, formality and churn
Half of South Africa’s gender pay gap comes from women sorting into low-paying firms, with low formality and high churn being key to understanding this dynamic.
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We ask: Why do South African women earn less than men? ~Half the gap is due to women "sorting" into lower-paying firms, beginning in their late 20s. New in JDE w/ @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social . Conversation piece:
Why are women paid less than men? New research in South Africa shows the company you work for makes the biggest difference
A big part of the explanation for why women are paid less than men is the companies they work for.
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