[Futuregen] Summary of the discussion today on WP3 review

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On 2019-09-10 16:19, Ricardo Rodrigues wrote:
> 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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