Counting Women's Work 11/18/19 Counting Women's Work 11/18/19

African Population Conference November 18-22, Entebbe, Uganda

Researchers affiliated with Counting Women's Work and the National Transfer Accounts projects will be presenting research at the 8th annual conference of the Union of African Population Scientists in Entebbe, Uganda. Some of the presentations are listed below, from the preliminary program. Please see the conference website for final details: http://8apc2019.org/home/

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Session: Monday, November 18 / Lundi, 18 Novembre 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Theatre Hall - Ground Floor, First DD and Prospects for the Second DD in Africa • Vieillissement et deuxième dividende démographique

Paper: Déficit du cycle de vie et capture du dividende démographique en Afrique Subsaharienne : Nécessité d’une autonomisation des femmes sénégalaises • Lesfran Sam Wanilo Agbahoungba, LAREG (Université de Parakou) & CREG (Sénégal); Latif Dramani*, CREG-CREFAT; Edem Akpo, CREG-CREFAT

Session: Tuesday, November 19 / Mardi, 19 Novembre 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Kyoga Hall - Ground Floor, Role of Gender in Accelerating the Demographic Dividend • Rôle du genre dans l'accélération du dividende démographique

Paper: Capital humain et Capture du dividende démographique au Sénégal : Une approche genre • Edmée Marthe Y. Ndoye*, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar; Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT

Paper: Adding Unpaid Care Work into the Analysis of Demographic Dividends • Gretchen Donehower*, University of California, Berkeley

Session: Tuesday, November 19 / Mardi, 19 Novembre 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Kuku Hall - First Floor, African Models for The Demographic Dividend – Practical Interventions, Lessons and Policy Options • Modèles africains pour le dividende démographique - Interventions pratiques, leçons et options politiques

Paper: Understanding the Demographic Dividend in Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia: A Prospect or Missed Opportunity? • Stephen O. Kwankye*, University of Ghana; Eric Arthur, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); Faustina Frempong-Ainguah, Regional Institute for Population Studies/University of Ghana; Eugenia Amporfu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

Session: Wednesday, November 20 / Mercredi, 20 Novembre 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Executive Room - Ground FloorGender Dividend • Le dividende du genre

Paper: Demographic Dynamics, Gender Dividends and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Nigeria • Olanrewaju Olaniyan*, University of Ibadan; Noah Olasehinde, University of Ibadan; Osaretin Adonri, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); Andat Dasogot, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Session: Thursday, November 21 / Jeudi, 21 Novembre 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Executive Room - Ground Floor, Education, Employment and Transformation of Gender Relations • Education, Emploi et Transformation Des Rapports De Genre Au Sein Des Ménages

Paper: Travaux domestiques et inégalités genre dans l’éducation dans les pays en développement d’Afrique Subsaharienne: cas du Sénégal • Lesfran Sam Wanilo Agbahoungba*, LAREG (Université de Parakou) & CREG (Sénégal); Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT; Edem Akpo, CREG-CREFAT

Session: Friday, November 22 / Vendredi, 22 Novembre 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Elgon Hall - Ground Floor, The Use of Demographic Intelligence to Influence Development Policies • L'utilisation de l'intelligence démographique pour influencer les politiques de développement

Paper: National Transfer and Demographic Dividend: Application in West and Central Africa • Latif Dramani*, CREG-CREFAT; Edouard Talnan, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Paper: Demographic Dividend Monitoring in West and Central Africa • Edem Akpo*, CREG-CREFAT

Counting Women's Work 4/23/19 Counting Women's Work 4/23/19

The Quantity‐Quality Tradeoff: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Market and Nonmarket Investments per Child in Relation to Fertility

CWW researchers published “The Quantity‐Quality Tradeoff: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Market and Nonmarket Investments per Child in Relation to Fertility” in Population and Development Review.

Vargha, L. and Donehower, G. (2019), The Quantity‐Quality Tradeoff: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Market and Nonmarket Investments per Child in Relation to Fertility. Population and Development Review, 45: 321-350. doi:10.1111/padr.12245

ABSTRACT:

The aim of this article is to show how various investments in children are related to fertility in a cross-national comparative context. We consider “child quality” as produced not only by market goods and services, but by inputs of unpaid care time as well. We integrate market investments in children with the imputed value of unpaid time devoted to childcare and other household services. Our measures are based on National Transfer Accounts (NTA) that disaggregate national accounts by age, extended by National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA), which estimate the same quantities for nonmarket household production activities using time-use surveys and imputed wages. We find that: (1) unpaid care time represents a large portion of total investments in children; (2) there is a significant negative association between fertility and investments per child; and (3) incorporating unpaid care time into the analysis makes theorized relationships between quantity and quality of children more robust.

Counting Women's Work 4/1/19 Counting Women's Work 4/1/19

Time Use and Transfers in the Americas - Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

CWW researchers published Time Use and Transfers in the Americas: Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders, featuring chapters on National Time Transfer Accounts methodology, results from Costa Rica, Uruguay, Colombia, and the United States, as well as cross-country comparative work.

Urdinola, B.P. and Tovar, J.A., 2019. Time Use and Transfers in the Americas. Springer International Publishing.

About this book:

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which reveal specific behavioral patterns over the life cycle. A mixture of economic conditions, social norms, and demographic trends provide insightful explanations for the unequal burden that women and girls carry when dealing with unpaid domestic activities, an economically significant but traditionally neglected activity. As such, the book is of interested to practitioners in all social sciences, particularly sociologists, demographers, economists, and policymakers.

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CWW Working Paper No. 8

CWW Working Paper WP8 is by Morné Oosthuizen, featuring CWW results for South Africa in 2010. It is entitled Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Incorporating Unpaid Work into Estimates of the Economic Lifecycle in 2010.

The eighth publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series covers the results for South Africa for 2010. (The sixth working paper featured South African results from 2000.) CWW working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP8 is by Morné Oosthuizen, and gives more recent CWW research for South Africa. The paper is titled Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Incorporating Unpaid Work into Estimates of the Economic Lifecycle in 2010. It can be downloaded through the link below.

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Infographic, Turkey

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for Turkey.

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Turkey is shown below.