[Futuregen] Summary of the discussion today on WP3 review

[Stefan Fors]

Sounds like you had a productive meeting indeed. It all sounds good to me. I look forward to hear more about the construction of the latent gender variable.

All the best,

Stefan

Från: Futuregen [mailto:futuregen-bounces at euro.centre.org] För Ricardo Rodrigues
Skickat: den 10 september 2019 17:20
Till: futuregen at euro.centre.org
Ämne: [Futuregen] Summary of the discussion today on WP3 review

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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