INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
25th IAFFE Annual Conference
Transitions and Transformations
In Gender Equality
National University of Ireland Galway
June 24-26, 2016 | Galway, Ireland
A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
We are very grateful for the support of these and other institutions, organizations
and individuals that have contributed so generously to this conference.
National University of Ireland Galway * Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) *
Taylor & Francis Group
IAFFE is also grateful for the continued support of the
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Department of Economics,
College of Business Administration and Rice University
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Our sincere appreciation goes out to some of the many individuals that have
worked so diligently to make this conference a success.
Nata Duvvury, NUI Galway, On-Site Coordinator
Gillian Browne, NUI Galway
Andrea Collins, IAFFE Conference Coordinator
Alicia Weaver, IAFFE Graduate Intern
Nancy Baise and Polly Morrice, Feminist Economics
All conference events, unless otherwise noted, are located at the
National University of Ireland Galway
University Road, Galway, Ireland
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If you tweet about the conference, use #IAFFE2016.
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Detailed Sessions Program
Friday, June 24
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Registration
Welcome and Opening Plenary
Cairnes
Welcome
Şemsa Özar, President IAFFE
Gender Equality in ‘Post-Recovery’ Ireland
Kathleen Lynch, Chair of Equality Studies, University College Dublin
Helen Russell, Associate Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute
Orla O’Connor, Director, National Women’s Council of Ireland
Moderator: Şemsa Özar, President of IAFFE
11:00 am – 11:20 am
Break
Concourse
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11:20 am – 1:00 pm Concurrent
Session 1
Recession, Employment, and Unpaid Work
Room AM112
Chair: Rachel Connelly
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Parents’ Time Together During the Great Recession in the U.S.
Ebru Kongar
Gender, recession and paid and unpaid work time: the case of Canada
Fiona MacPhail
Shares of paid and unpaid work and subjective time pressure in Australia, Korea and Finland
Lyn Craig and Judith Brown
The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Squeeze in South Africa
Maria Floro and Abhilasha Srivastava
Austerity and Women’s Unpaid Work
Alicia Girón
Roundtable: Investing in the Social Infrastructure – Women’s Budget Group
Research and Advocacy
Room AM109
Chair: Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds
Presenters:
Diane Perrons, London School of Economics
Susan Himmelweit, Open University
İpek İlkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University
Roundtable: Making the Case for Gender Equality: Revisiting the Equity and
Efficiency Arguments
Room AM108
Participants:
Cheryl Doss, Yale University
Shahra Razavi, UN Women
Nilüfer Cagatay, UN Women
Jill Rubery, University of Manchester
Valeria Esquivel, UN Research Institute for Social Development
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University
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Gender Savings and Financial Markets
Room AM110
Revisiting the Role of Gender in Credit Rationing: Evidence from Single-Headed Households in the
Survey of Consumer Finance
Melanie Long
Women’s Economic Risk Exposure and Savings
Michele Tolson and Christian Weller
Gendered Circuits of Debt and Finance
Drucilla Barker
On the Gendered Logic of the Megabank: An Exploration
Gary Dymski and Eirini Petratou
Occupational Segregation and Gendered Consequences I
Room AM107
The Effect of Human Capital Depreciation on Occupational Gender Segregation
Cher Li
Occupational Segregation and Sexual Orientation in the US
Olga Alonso-Villar and Coral del Rio Otero
Gender Quotas and the Modern Apprenticeship Programme: A useful strategy to addressing gender
segregation in vocational training?
Alyson Laird
Occupational Structure and Gender Demography – Cases of undoing gender in Occupations
Isabella Scheibmayr
Feminization of Labor in Formal Sector: What is really achieved?
Şemsa Özar
Tracing the Impact of Government Policies on Gender (In)Equality
Room AM104
Transition and transformation in gender equality in Iran
Mitra Naseri
Family Instead of Woman: Women’s Place in Turkey’s Recent Employment Policies within the
Neoliberal and Patriarchal Context
Gulay Toksoz
Cont.
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Transition of Gender Equality in India
Neelam Choudhary
Women’s Labor Market in Turkey: “Rights” or “Retrenchment”?
Fadime Karakus and Sengul Apari
Tracing the Impact of Government Policies on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in
Kenya Rosemary Atieno
Women-Owned Enterprises: Policy Frameworks, Barriers, and Performance
Room AM105
Attitudes toward Small Business Subsidies: Differences by Entrepreneur Gender
Elizabeth Whitaker, Janet Bokemeier, and Scott Loveridge
Perception on Gender as a Mediator Linking Environmental Factor and the Performance of
Entrepreneurial Firms
Elena Sannikova-Cassidy and John Cassidy
Pushed into necessity? Gender gaps in the labor market and entrepreneurship of women
Magdalena Smyk and Joanna Tyrowicz
Project Mine the Gap
Kristin Haffert
Youth, Unemployment, and Economic Empowerment
Room AC202
The School to Work Transitions of Young Indonesian Women
Siobhan Austen
Exploring the strategies of young women towards economic empowerment
Shahana Nazneen
Young urban women and economic empowerment: exploring hidden linkages
Baishali Chatterjee
Improving Reproductive Knowledge Outcomes among High School Girls in India: Results from a trial
using 'coloured beads’
Supriya Garikipati
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch (box lunch provided, yellow ticket)
Concourse
Thematic Groups Meeting
Cairnes
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2:30 pm – 4:10 pm Concurrent
Session 2
Understanding and Researching Relationships between Reproductive Work and
Wage Employment
Room AM112
Chair: Deborah Johnston, London University
Food and farmwork: women's employment and the shift to purchased food
Deborah Johnston
Working lives in the occupied West Bank: Understanding the determinants and gendered outcomes
Hannah Bargawi
Women’s work in northern Mozambique: Reflections on the interconnectedness of paid and unpaid
work Sara Stevano
Gender division of labour and household food security in rural Mozambique
Diksha Arora and Corina Rada
Gender Dimensions of Economic Governance in Europe
Room AM107
Chair: Diane Elson, University of Essex
The Role of Gender Norms in the Construction of the EU Economic Sphere
Muireann O’Dwyer
“This is a very serious message.” The role of EU economic governance in austerity in Finland
Anna Elomaki
The Gendered Nature of Economic Governance in the European Union: a key battleground for
gender equality
Elisabeth Klatzer and Christa Schlager
Gender and EU Integration After the Financial Crisis: the impact of EU economic governance
Rosalind Cavaghan
The consolidation of GB practice in Andalusia (Spain): Gender Budgeting Audits
Alicia del Olmo Garrudo
Roundtable: Gender Challenges: A Conversation –
A Special Panel for IAFFE 2016
Room AC202
Chair: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University
Cont.
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Presenters:
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University
Diana Strassmann, Rice University
Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester
Gender Differences in Savings, Credit, and Assets in Different Contexts
Room AM108
Evaluation of “Savings Promotion Pilot Program for JUNTOS families” in Peru
Ursula Aldana and Chris Boyd Leon
Unpacking asset inequality in post conflict transition: The case of eastern Sri Lanka
Sasini Kulatunga
The Gendered Distribution of Assets and Debts over the Life-cycle in South Korea
Jayoung Yoon
Women’s Empowerment and Bargaining with Patriarchy
Room AM104
Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance of Recipient Countries? Results from Structural
Equation Analysis
Ranjula Bali Swain
Woman's relative wage and intimate partner violence: The case of Mexico
Aixa Maria Garcia Ramos
Legal Entitlement and Bargaining Power of Marriage Immigrants in Korea
Dainn Wie
Hierarchy, Exploitation, and Bargaining: A Feminist Perspective
Nancy Folbre
The Power to Influence – Strategies Women Use to Be Heard in Patriarchal Zimbabwe
Alix Tiernan
Environment and Gender: Social Policy, Time Use, and Decision-Making
Room AM110
Environmental and Societal effects of working time: A feminist perspective
Alexandra Arntsen
Explaining Gender Differences in Cooperation and Decision-making: The Role of Social Identity in
Joint Forest Management in India
Biswajit Ray and Promita Mukherjee
Cont.
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Attitudes and Cooperation: Does Gender Matter in Community-Based Natural Resource
Management?
Promita Mukherjee, Biswajit Ray, and Rabindranath Bhattacharya
Gender in climate change and agri-food policies: a close look at East Africa
Mariola Acosta Francés and Edidah Ampaire
Time Poverty Interventions and Impacts: Changing gender roles + ‘eco-stove’ improved cook stoves
in Intibucá, Honduras
Rebecca Williams
Estimating the Gender Wage Gap and Wealth Gap
Room AM109
Estimating the gender wage gap over the life cycle
Lucas van der Velde, Irene van Staveren, and Joanna Tyrowicz
Japanese Gender Pay Gap Guidelines Revisited: Focusing on Gender-Disaggregated Indicators
Yayoi Sugihashi
The Gender Wealth Gap: Assessing Wealth Poverty & Decomposing Inequality
Daniella Medina
Revisiting Gender Wage Gap in Pakistan: A Tale of Labour Market Discrimination
Muhammad Sabir
Extent of Gender Wage Gap In India
Kavita Chakravarty
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
General Membership Meeting
& Book Celebration
Concourse
Cairnes
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception
Location TBA
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Saturday, June 25
Registration
9:00 am – 10:40 am Concurrent Session 3
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Austerity and Sustainable Alternatives
Room AM110
Chairs: Diane Elson, University of Essex and Hannah Bargawi, University of London
Engendering Economic Recovery: Modeling Alternatives to Austerity in Europe
Giovanni Cozzi and Hannah Bargawi
A Feminist Alternative to Austerity: The Purple Economy as a Gender Egalitarian Strategy for Jobs
Generation
İpek İlkkaracan
The Effects of the Economic Crisis and Austerity on Gender Equality in Spain and the Spanish Regions
Elvira González Gago
Explaining Austerity and its Gender Impact
Susan Himmelweit
Cooperatives in Care Provision: Assessing the Impacts on Gender Equality
Simel Esim
Roundtable: Gender and the UN: Current Priorities, Opportunities and Challenges
Room AM109
Chair: Jennifer Olmsted, Drew University
Presenters:
Fatma Unal, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Kathrin Weny, UN Population Fund
Tanni Mukhopadhyay, UN Development Program
Growth, Macroeconomy, Reproduction, and Well-Being
Room AM108
Empowering women: The need to look beyond agriculture and food security and address
reproductive freedom
Madhavi Venkatesan
The Construction of Family Planning in Turkey: Development as a common Goal
Sengul Apari and Fatma Armagan Teke Lloyd
Cont.
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Measuring macroeconomic effects of gender inequality in the reproductive sector
Phoebe Spencer and Stephanie Seguino
Engendering Resource-Extraction: What has the Commodity Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa Meant for
Gendered Well-being?
Duygu Orhan
Roundtable: “Sharing The Work:” A Candid Panel Discussion of Myra Strober’s New
Memoir of Work and Family
Room AM104
Presenters:
Ann Mari May, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Joyce Jacobsen, Wesleyan University
Cecilia Conrad, MacArthur Foundation
Ranjula Bali Swain, Södertörn University
Intra-Household Allocation: Gender and Decision-Making
Room AM105
The socioeconomic gradient in health: The role of intra-household resource allocation and decisionmaker's gender
Elena Barcena-Martin, Ana I. Moro-Egido, and Maite Blazquez
Material deprivation and intrahousehold allocation of resources: the role of decision maker’s gender
Ana I. Moro-Egido, Elena Barcena-Martin, and Maite Blazquez Cuesta
Gender, Headship, and the Lifecycle: Landownership in Four Asian Countries
Cheryl Doss, Agnes Quisumbing, Caitlin Kieran, and Kathryn Sproule
An examination of married women’s intra-household decision-making outcomes in Ireland
Caroline Finn and Nata Duvvury
Transformation of the Gender Equality Status in Canada: Estimating the Impact of the 2008-2009
Economic Crisis on Mothers and Fathers Work Time
Ana Androsik
Sustainability, Ecology, and Care
Room AC202
Chair: Phoebe Spencer, University of Vermont
Cont.
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Degrowth: A Common Denominator for Both, Gender and Environmental Justice
Corinna Dengler
Living within natural boundaries: Issues in palliative care and sustainability
Elisabeth Reitinger, Katharina Heimerl, and Ullli Weisz
Husbandry: Potential and Pitfalls of the Concept for Feminist and Ecological Economics
Julie Nelson
To Measure or To Narrate? Paths Towards a Sustainable Future
Günseli Berik
Patriarchal and Capitalist Transformations: The Changing Role of Women
Room AM107
How (Not) Make Women Work? Evidence from Transition Countries
Karolina Goraus, Lucas van der Velde, and Joanna Tyrowicz
Gendered rural labour market. When the social and economic transformations do not go
simultaneously
Christine Bigler
Social Systems of Provisioning: A Feminist Reinterpretation of Variation within Capitalism
Barbara Hopkins
The premodern form of domestic patriarchy: The case of Turkey
Ece Kocabicak
War as an economic equality opportunity for women
Mahnaz Ebrahimpour
Roundtable: What Feminist Economists Can and Should Do to Improve the Lives of
LGBTI People
Room AM112
Chair: M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Presenters:
James Heintz, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Karin Schoenpflug, University of Vienna
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University
Duncan MacKinnon, Rutgers University
10:40 am – 11:00 am
Break
Concourse
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11:00 am – 12:40 pm Concurrent Session
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Gendered Process of Asset Acquisition and Composition
Room AM109
Chair: Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester
Who Borrows to Accumulate Assets? Class, Gender and Indebtedness in Ecuador's Credit Market
Carmen Diana Deere and Zachary Catanzarite
Women’s Ownership Of Land In Peru: Characteristics And Empirical Estimation Of Determinants
Rosa Luz Duran
Economies of Dispossession: Women from Honduras and Guatemala in the Global Scramble for Land
Leigh Brady, Muireann Kiranne, and Aisling Walsh
Roundtable: The Challenges of Measuring Time Use in a Developing Context: What
Does and Does Not Work?
Room AM112
Chair: Hazel Jean Malapit, International Food Policy Research Institute
Presenters:
Greg Seymour, International Food Policy Research Institute
Deborah Johnston, University of London
Sara Stevano, University of London
Feminist Economics Approaches to Economic History
Room AM109
Morality, Gender, and Power in Early Political Economy
Edith Kuiper
A Hundred Years of Solitude: How Many More Do We Need To Broach Development?
Natalia Bracarense
The Gender order in Argentina in the "Oligarchic” period (1880-1930)
Silvia Berger
Gendered Differences in Employment and Unemployment
Room AM108
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Employment?
Maria Elena Komodromou
Cont.
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Gendered impacts of the crisis and austerity policies on employment and working conditions in
Spain
Paula Rodriguez-Modroño and Lina Galvez-Muñoz
The Impact of Formal Afterschool Childcare on the “First-grade Wall”: Labor Supply of Mothers with
School-Age Children in Japan
Yoko Morita and Kazuyasu Sakamoto
Unemployment, underemployment and time autonomy by gender in a context of austerity
Lina Galvez-Muñoz, Margarita Vega, Oriel Sullivan, Paula Rodriguez-Modroño, and Pierre
Walthery
What do we know about the patterns and determinants of duration of employment and
unemployment: Exploring gender differences?
Fatma Guven-Lisaniler, Feyza Bhatti, and Firat Emir
Roundtable: Change Your Thoughts – Transform Your Life: What is a Gender
Transformative Approach to Development and How Can It Change Our Thinking on
Multi-Dimensional Poverty Reduction in Agriculture and Natural Resource
Management Projects?
Room AM110
Chair: Rebecca Williams, University of Florida
Presenters:
Una Murray, National University of Ireland Galway
Jennifer Twyman, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Els Lecoutere, University of Antwerp
Sandra Russo, University of Florida
Roundtable: Innovations in Care: New Concepts, Actors and Policies
Room AC202
Chair: Caecilie Schildberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Alicia Girón, Discussant, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Gita Sen, Discussant, Public Health Foundation of India
Participants:
Valeria Esquivel, UN Research Institute for Social Development
Persistent Gender Inequalities and Unemployment
Room AM107
Fertility Discrimination in Hiring in the German Speaking Labor Market
Doris Weichselbaumer, Ana Fernandes, and Sascha O. Becker
Cont.
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The political economy of gay marriage: a feminist critique
Bronwyn Winter
Public Goods and Gift Economies: Alternatives toward more democratic and just higher education
imaginaries
Su-ming Khoo
The Making of the ‘Excellent’ University: A Drawback for Gender Equality
Finnborg Steinthorsdottir, Thamar Heijstra, and Thorgerdur Einarsdottir
Affirmative Action Broke the Glass Ceiling in South Korea?
Hyo-Yong Sung
12:40 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch (boxed lunch provided, orange ticket)
Sponsored by FES-Berlin
Concourse
2:00 pm – 3:40 pm Concurrent
Session 5
Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The Radical Potential for Human
Rights
Room AC202
Extraterritorial Obligations, Human Rights and Economic Governance
James Heintz
What Does Human Rights Have to do With Inequality
Radhika Balakrishnan
Economic crises and human rights
Diane Elson
“Negotiate, try to recover what we lost and not lose anything else”: Tensions and challenges in
collective reparations from the territories
Alejandro Valderrama-Herrera
Translating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into action in Vietnam
Marzia Fontana
Roundtable: Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are
they a transformative agenda?
Room AM104
Cont.
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Chair: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School
Presenters:
Gita Sen, Public Health Foundation of India
Shahra Razavi, UN Women
Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Measurement and Indicators: Well-Being and Empowerment
Room AM109
Introducing Gender in Sub-national HDRs: An Exercise for Bardhaman District of India
Jhilam Ray
The Measurement of Time and Consumption Poverty in Africa: Ghana and Tanzania
Fernando Rios-Avila, Ajit Zacharias, Kijong Kim, Tamar Khitarishvili, and Thomas Masterson
A gender- based analysis of the determinants of multidimensional poverty in Mexico
Mary Villeda Santana
New methodologies to measure women’s empowerment among the extremely poor: evidence from
Colombia
Susana Martinez Restrepo
Empowering Women for Improved Agricultural and Nutrition Outcomes
Stella Nordhagen
Roundtable: Reviving Theory: Why Theory Matters for Feminist Economics
Room AM112
Presenters:
Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University
Ulrike Knobloch, University of Fribourg
Edith Kuiper, State University of New York at New Paltz
Maren A. Jochimsen, University of Duisburg-Essen
Irene van Staveren, Institute of Social Studies
Recession Employment and Unpaid Work in Global Context
Room AM107
Chair: Ebru Kongar, Dickinson College
Cont.
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Rural Women’s Time Use in Ethnic-Minority-Concentrated Regions of Western and Central China
Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Rachel Connelly
Gender differences in time use among the elderly: evidence from South Africa
Dorrit Posel
Women and the Urban Economy in India: Insights from the Data on Migration
Smriti Rao
Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle and Income Inequality: Evidence from Turkey
Emel Memis and Ebru Kongar
Time and Income Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires
Valeria Esquivel
The Primacy of Gender in Education
Room AM105
Teacher Characteristics, Student Beliefs and the Gender Gap in STEM Fields
Dario Sansone
Gender, Competition, and Choices in Higher Education
Anne Boring
The Painfully Slow and Uneven Transitions and Transformations Toward Gender Equality in
American Higher Education--And Ideas About How To Make Faster Progress
Carol Frances
Why Do Gay Men and Lesbians Get More Education?
Marta Murray-Close and Alyssa Schneebaum
Teaching Mathematics to Girls in Kindergarten and First Grade: How do Instructional Practices
Influence Learning and Socioemotional Development?
Cassandra Guarino
Occupational Segregation and Gendered Consequences II
Room AM108
Trends in Occupational Segregation and Gender Pay Gap in India: Moving Towards Equality?
Anupama Uppal
The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Occupational Segregation by Gender in South Africa
Anna Minasyan and Stephan Klasen
Gender Inequality in Universities in Haryana
Anjana Garg
Cont.
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Working time, working from home and the capability to balance work, home and family
responsibilities: the comparison of mothers and fathers in Poland
Anna Kurowska
Caring Models and Care Policies
Room AM110
Mediating the Care-Centered Economy to the Public Sphere: The Newly Founded Association WiC
(Wirtschaft ist Care) and its First Campaign
Ina Praetorius
Queer and translocal care concepts arising in contexts of LGBTIQ refugee movements
Karin Schoenpflug and Viktoria Eberhardt
Size Matters: Issues of Scale in Long Term Care
Martha MacDonald
Flexible Work, Child Care Policy and Gender Equality: A Critical Assessment of ‘Making Women
Active and Promotion Plan’ in Japan
Nobuko Hara
Who gets and who provides paid homecare services in the U.S.? Race politics, Medicaid and labor
market policies and regional variation in care provision
Candace Howes
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Break
Concourse
4:00 pm – 5:40 pm Concurrent
Session 6
Women’s Time Use and Decision-Making in Rural Development
Room AM105
Chair: Maria Floro, American University
Patterns of women’s decision making in markets and households: Lessons from technology adoption
in South Kivu, DRC
Renee Bullock
Agricultural Work, Energy Expenditure, and Nutritional Status in Tanzania
Mysbah Balagamwala, Hazel Jean Malapit, and Hitomi Komatsu
Identity, Household Work, and Subjective Well-Being among Rural Women in Bangladesh
Greg Seymour and Maria Floro
Cont.
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Women’s Credit Access and Control in Ethiopia and Kenya
Hazel Jean Malapit, Greg Seymour, and Phanwin Yokying
Roundtable: High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
Room AC202
Chair: Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Joyce Jacobsen, Discussant, Wesleyan University
Participants:
Tanni Mukhopadhyay, UN Development Fund
Alicia Girón, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Addressing Work/Life Balance: Transitions in Family Strategies
Room AM110
Social representations and practices of care: the case of Uruguay
Natalia Paola
The Gender Gap in Work-Family Conflict: Evidence from Low-Income Neighborhoods in São Paulo
Regina Madalozzo and Merike Blofield
New Arrangements: Transformations in Black Families and Households
Nina Banks
Are We In New Transition From Family-Work Balance To Family-Work Integration?
Irina Kalabikhina
Partner’s status and conflict over housework
Thora Thorsdottir
Agriculture and Gender: Moving Towards Empowerment
Room AM109
Gender analysis in agroforestry agri-environmental schemes: A Kenyan case study
Oreoluwa Ola and Emmanuel Benjamin
The role of rural development policies in the empowerment of women in agriculture: The case of
Chapada do Apodi, Rio Grande do Norte Brazil
Erika Valério
Seed Movements: Gendering and Racialising Labour in Hawaiʻi’s Multinational Seed and
Agrochemical Economies
Amanda Shaw
Cont.
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Intra household cooperation and crop choice in smallholder farming households in Uganda
Els Lecoutere
Violence against Women: Determinants, Impacts, and Strategies
Room AM104
Macroeconomic stress and physical intimate partner violence around the time of pregnancy:
evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Jacqueline Strenio
Economic impact of violence against women in the Peruvian formal microbusinesses: 2015
Aristides Vara-Horna
Drivers of Attitudes to Spousal Violence: Evidence from India
Hema Swaminathan and Arnab Mukherji
Crimes against women and economic conditions: Evidence from India
Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings, Sonia Bhalotra, and Zahra Siddique
Tackling Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Women’s Shelter in Japan
Mariko Ogawa
Competition, Corruption, Taxing, and Budgeting
Room AM108
Transculturation of Gender and Well-Being Budgeting Ideas in Poland as Means of ‘Utopistic’ Good
Life for All
Zofia Lapniewska
Transforming Competition to Foster Gender Equality?
E. Katharina Sarter
Women in Parliament: Does Increased Participation Lead to Improvement in Perceived Levels of
Corruption?
Samaneh Khademi
Taxing times for gender equality in Scotland
Angela O’Hagan
The ‘Business Case’ for Gender Equality
Naveed Hakeem and Emily Thomson
Social Protection in the Global South
Room AM112
Cont.
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Female Casual Labour, Undernourishment and Gender Neutral Social Protection Policies in India
Sandhya Iyer
Labour Intensive Public Works, Returned Migration and Effects on Household Welfare: A Case Study
of Ghana Social Opportunity Programme
Isaac Osei-Akoto, Simon Bawakyillenuo, and George Owusu
The Role of Social Protection Interventions in Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation:
The Case of the Labour Intensive Public Works (LIPW) of the Ghana Social Opportunities Projects
(GSOP)
Simon Bawakyillenuo, Isaac Osei-Akoto, George Owusu, and Innocent Agbelie
Engendering Macroeconomic Analysis
Room AM107
The effect of income distribution and gender equality on growth and employment: A gendered
macroeconomic model
Cem Oyvat, Eurydice Fotopoulou, and Ozlem Onaran
Gendered Employment Responses of Pakistan’s Growth
Karin Siegmann and Hadia Majid
Gender Discrimination and Export Quality and Diversity
Rachel Noble
The Taxation of Single Parents and ‘Secondary’ Earners – Can Women’s Work Pay in Joint
Tax/Benefit Systems?
Ulrike Spangenberg and Kathleen Lahey
Linkage between Macroeconomic & Trade Indicators and Gender Wage-Gap in India
Tanya Gandhi
7:00 pm
Dinner at Radison Blu Galway
Lough Atalia Road, Galway (Pre-Registration/Pre-Payment
Required)
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Sunday, June 26
Registration
9:00 am – 10:40 am Concurrent Session 7
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Gender and Economic Outcomes for African American and African Women
Room AM108
How individual characteristics influence the probability of being employed in South Africa: A panel
analysis
Carike Claassen and Caro Janse Van Rensburg
Can the elimination of school fees close the gender gap in primary education? Evidence from
Rwanda
Aichatou Hassane Noma
Educational Attainment of Black Women in the U.S.: 1970 – 2014
Rhonda Sharpe, Nina Banks, and Cecilia Conrad
Intersectional disparities by race and gender over forty years in the United States
Marlene Kim
Roundtable: Macroeconomics and Gender Justice: Strategies for Change Through
the SDGs and Beyond
Room AM107
Presenters:
Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Diane Elson, University of Essex
Alicia Girón, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jessica Woodroffe, ActionAid
Roundtable: Transition in Europe and EIGE work
Room AM105
Chair: Ewa Ruminska-Zimny, Polish Academy of Science
Presenters:
Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds
Helena Morais Maceira, European Institute for Gender Equality
Anna Kurowska, University of Warsaw
Zofia Lapniewska, Glasgow Caledonian University
Angela O’Hagan, Glasgow Caledonian University
Alicia del Olmo, Instituto de Estudios de la Hacienda Pública de Andalucía
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Women, Work and Status in Rural Area of India and Bangladesh
Room AC202
Child Labor and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from India
Yana Rodgers and Nidhiya Menon
Labour Market and Missing Women: The Indian Story
Nandini Mukherjee
Doing Care: Gender differences in the rural Indian workday
Avanti Mukherjee
Women’s Market and Non-Market Work in Rural India Over the Long Term
Wendy Olsen, Kunal Sen, and Amaresh Dubey
Advancing Feminist Theory and Critique
Room AM110
Building Blocks for a Feminist Behavioral Economics
Irene van Staveren and Esther-Mirjam Sent
Economics Deconstructed: On the question of text while studying economy
Tiina Vainio
Workfare and the Question of Feminist Critique
Lisa Adkins
Ethics of Feminist Economics (cont.): The Normative Foundations of Individual and Social
Provisioning.
Ulrike Knobloch
The Case for Adaptive Preferences
Arpita Bhattacharjee
Parental, Medical Leave and Retirement
Room AM104
Fathers, Mothers, Happiness, and Childrearing: The Negative Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Parental Leave Inequality
Simon Hedlin
Gender and the Transition to Extended Working Life Policy in Ireland
Aine Ni Leime, Caroline Finn, and Nata Duvvury
It’s About Time: Cost of Coverage of Paid Family and Medical Leave In Massachusetts
Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews
Cont.
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Motherhood in the United States: The Ultimate Catch 22
Rachel Newhouse
Determinants of pension payments by gender: evidence from Europe
Patricia Carney and Tindara Addabbo
Hot Topics
Room AM112
The Impact of Feminism on Criminology with an Emphasis on Iran’s National Law
Nahid Naseri and Mehran Sohrabi
How three generations of feminism and struggle for justice can help smash that glass ceiling
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Internet affordability: the key to open the door to real digital empowerment for women - Evidence
and policy solutions from the A4AI Affordability Report and Web Foundation Women’s Rights Online
research
Ingrid Brudvig, Sonia Jorge, and Dhanaraj Thakur
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10:45 am – 12:30 pm
Closing Plenary
Cairnes
The Future of Feminist Social Sciences
Su-Ming Kohoo, Lecturer, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland
Galway
Emily Thomson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Economics, Accountancy and Risk and
Research Associate, Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre, Glasgow Caledonian
University
Alyssa Schneebaum, Hertha Firnberg Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of
Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law,
National University of Ireland Galway, and Associate Researcher, Hans and Tamara Oppenheimer
Chair in Public International Law, McGill University
Moderator: Joyce Jacobsen, President IAFFE, Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs,
and Andrews Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University
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Thank you for attending the 2016 IAFFE Annual Conference!
We will be contacting you shortly for your feedback on the conference.
Please take a few minutes to let us know how we did.
Contact [email protected] with any post-conference follow up.
We hope to see you at the 26th IAFFE Annual Conference
in Seoul, South Korea, June 29 – July 1, 2017.
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