Press Room
Commentary
What Is Work?
Presentation, June 2020 | Nancy Folbre
What Is Work?
In an animation by Institute for New Economic Thinking, PERI's Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and investment.
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Research
Cooperation and Conflict in the Patriarchal Labyrinth
Journal Article, February 2020 | Nancy Folbre
Research
Developing Care: Recent Research on the Care Economy and Economic Development
International Development Research Centre
Research Report, September 2018 | Nancy Folbre
Research
Investment, Consumption, or Public Good? Unpaid Work and Intra-Family Transfers in the Macro-Economy
Published Study, October 2017 | Nancy Folbre, James Heintz
Commentary
Why Current Definitions of Family Income Are Misleading, and Why this Matters
Essay, July 2017 | Nancy Folbre
Research
The Wages of Care: Bargaining Power, Earnings and Inequality
Working Paper, February 2017 | Nancy Folbre, Kristin Smith
Commentary
Of Jousting Knights and Jewelled Swords: a feminist reflection on Davos
Commentary, February 2017 | Nancy Folbre
Research
Just Deserts? Earnings Inequality and Bargaining Power in the U.S. Economy
Published Study, October 2016 | Nancy Folbre
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