Care Economies in Context

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How care is organized impacts our entire economic and social system as well as every individual within it; it intersects with gender, age, migration and citizenship status, and racial and socio-economic inequality.

Project Director (PI): Ito Peng

Ito Peng

Director

This global project explores paid and unpaid childcare, elder care, and sick and disabled care in nine countries around the world. How care is organized impacts our entire economic and social system as well as every individual within it; it intersects with gender, age, migration and citizenship status, and racial and socio-economic inequality.

This research project seeks to understand the organization and process of care economies in nine countries across four global regions and the effects of different institutions, cultures, and social and economic policies in shaping them. It will use this knowledge to develop gender-aware macroeconomic theories and models for policy development and analysis.

Along with an international team of academic researchers, this partnership involves representatives from key international and national policy and non-profit sector partners.

Care Economies in Context is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Open Society Foundations, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the University of Toronto.


Principal Project Participants

  • Melissa Milkie (Canada Team Lead)
  • Natalia Ramirez Bustamonte (Colombia Co-Lead)
  • Ana-Maria Tribin (Colombia Co-Lead)
  • Laura Ramirez Alfaro (Costa Rica Lead)
  • Isabella Aboderin (Kenya Team Lead)
  • Francesca Bettio (Italy Team Lead)
  • Dileni Gunewardena (Sri Lanka Lead)
  • Otgontugs Banzragc (Mongolia Lead)
  • Ki-Soo Eun (Korea Lead)
  • Maria Floro (macroeconomics Lead)
  • Latif Dramani (Senegal Team Lead)

The Care Economies in Context project consists of nine country teams and a team of macroeconomic experts.


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Academic Books and Articles Book Chapters

The Role of Religion for the Development of Work-Family Policies: The Example of Confucianism

18 September 2024

Academic Books and Articles Book Chapters

COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration

18 September 2024

Student Work Analytical Reflections

Obtaining and Maintaining Assistive Devices and Technology 

5 September 2024

Caregiver stands with care recipient, who is in a wheelchair. Both look out at the sunset over a green field. Text includes title and subtitle of report.
Reports Policy Briefs

A Toolkit on Paid and Unpaid Carework: From 3Rs to 5Rs

31 July 2024

Research Findings Student Work Presentations

Defining care moments: unequal rebounding from crises for family senior caregivers

24 July 2024

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Project Profiles

Country Profile: Care Economy in Costa Rica

3 July 2024

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