[Futuregen] Summary of the discussion today on WP3 review

[Ricardo Rodrigues]

Dear colleagues,

We just had a very pleasant and worthwhile meeting with Afshin and Susan 
on the WP3 review, with Stefania also joining via zoom. Below you will 
find a summary of the (tentative) decisions and ideas with pointers to 
comments and decisions needed from any of you.
This is also posted in Freedcamp (under "Agenda/topics for zoom"), where 
you can also find the PPT and other documents from this discussion 
(under "WP3 Discussion").

Carrying out literature review WP3 on health, support from AT team:

i) AT team will provide a translation (not literal, but one focusing on 
the information needed) from the methods section of the papers written 
in Portuguese and Spanish. Those that do not meet the inclusion criteria 
(e.g. just controlling for gender and/or descriptive) can be immediately 
labelled as such by the AT team in the data extraction tool. This will 
likely take place after end of October 2019.

If the no. of papers overall from which to extract the information is 
too big, the AT team will also participate in the data extraction 
exercise. To be confirmed as needed with the CAN team.

TO SUSAN: Does the above make sense to you as well?

Drafting WP3 review and proof of concept paper on health:

The suggestion is that Susan and Afshin draft the paper except the 
Discussion section and then circulate this among the other co-authors 
for them to provide bullet points on the Discussion. These will then be 
integrated into a coherent text by Susan and Afshin and sent around for 
further comments/suggestions from the other co-authors.

TO SUSAN: Does the above make sense to you as well?

TO STEFAN: Would this be OK with you, Stefan?

Drafting WP3 proof of concept paper on care:

Same approach as above for health, but as this paper will likely be 
drafted after the health one, we might involve Afshin on the estimation 
of some methods (e.g. provision of STATA/SAS code, discussion of how to 
carry out the estimation or even running some of the models).

While discussing the latent models and structural equation, Afshin 
presented an example based on social position (the latent variable not 
directly observable) that causes income, education, neighborhood 
effects, etc. (see slide attached). We came about the idea that gender - 
understood here as a broader set of roles, conceptualization (e.g. 
care/bodily care as a gendered task), norms - could also be modelled as 
a latent variable that could be used in a multi-level structural 
equation setting to study inequalities in care among European countries 
in WP2.

Gender equality variables (e.g. gender equality on distribution of tasks 
within household, traditionalist values, gender equality in work, etc) 
could be used in the place of education, income, etc for this latent 
variable gender. By modelling gender this way, while keeping sex as an 
independent variable in the regression and applying this to SHARE for 
all Europeans, we would be able to account for all the 
differences/similarities across European countries. This means that 
whatever sex effect would be left would be the actual difference in 
(e.g.) provision of care between men and women (i.e. the "true" 
individual effect). This is something we might follow up in WP2 as this 
could be one way to carry out an analysis of inequalities in 
socio-economics/gender across Europe/Canada.

TO AFSHIN/ESZTER: Does my description above capture what we discussed?

TO SUSAN/STEFANIA: In view of the above, do you think you would like to 
meet and discuss further on any of these topics (or other related to 
WP3) tomorrow? If so we could do this between 13h00-14h00 CET. Just let 
us know so that Stefania could set up a zoom. If not, probably me and 
Eszter will have another short meeting with Afshin on the review.

Best wishes,

Ricardo


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