Frontiers in the economics of gender

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Group Author: Bettio Francesca.; Verashchagina Alina.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge Siena studies in political economy
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Carrier Form: xv, 298 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780415445726 (hardcover)
0415445728 (hardcover)
9780203927694 (e-book)
0203927699 (e-book)
Index Number: F241
CLC: F241
Call Number: F241/F935
Contents: Research studies from the Summer School of International Research in Pontignano, University of Siena.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Historical perspectives. The history of economic thought through gender lenses / Annalisa Rosselli and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo; The historical construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history / Pat Hudson -- Theoretical developments. A gender neutral approach to gender issues / Alessandro Cigno; The gender gap /Graciela Chichilnisky -- Ghosts in the machine: a post Keynesian analysis of gender relations, households, and macroeconomics / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Lucia C. Hanmer; A fresh look at households. Conceptualizing care / Nancy Folbre; Gender and household decision-making / Shelly Lundberg -- Labour market debates. Gender differences across Europe / Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Guttierez and Ali Skalli; Occupational segregation and gender wage disparities in developed economies. should we still worry? / Francesca Bettio; The transition from planned to a market economy: how are women faring? / Marina Malysheva and Alina Verashchagina -- Lessons from the laboratory.The gender gap: using the lab as a window on the market / Catherine Eckel; The gender effect in the laboratory. Experimenter bias and altruism / Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza -- Institutions matter. Gender and the political economy of knowledge / Ann Mary May.