Consumption expenditures are a powerful indicator of standard of living because most
families acquire key requirements for their daily lives—food, clothing, cellphone services …

The division of paid and unpaid work fostered by the industrial revolution resulted in the
devaluation of domestic work, including cleaning. Taking place behind closed doors renders …

Decision making in public health often happens against the background of scarce
resources. The systematic use of economic evaluations can be a main enabler in the …

This paper departs from the hypothesis that policies targeting time poverty have the potential
to reduce the gender income gap through the redistribution of time use between women and …

Young people aged 25-29 is a group of special interest in public policies related to transition
between education and work. This fact was highlighted in 2020 when the adoption of the EU …

This article describes a brief module for economics courses in which students learn about
inequality through the lens of time-use data. Economic research on time use is common in …

Unpaid domestic works generally carried out by women are common in every household in
any society. Though it nourishes and replenishes human life, its contributions to the …

While unpaid work activities contribute significantly to a country's economy, a large amount
of those activities is not included in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but various …

How does the use of formal childcare arrangements impact families' paid and unpaid
working hours, and more importantly, how does it affect the division of these tasks between …

• Wesley Mitchell's first formal study on valuation of household work for the US back in
1921•“… a woman who makes her own clothes, or a man who digs his own garden or …