Economics of Gender explores how economic theory, tools, and data can be used to understand the roles, contributions, and experiences of different genders within the economy. The course critically engages with both mainstream and feminist economic frameworks to uncover how gendered norms, power relations, and institutional structures shape economic outcomes in both market and non-market settings.
Throughout the semester, we examine key themes such as:
The common terminologies and concepts in gender analysis;
The gendered nature of households, labour division, and intra-household bargaining;
The valuation and recognition of unpaid care work;
Gender disparities in labour force participation and wages;
[Re] defining women’s empowerment and agency using mainstream and feminist economics’ perspective
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of human resource economics in general and the labor market in particular, both theoretically and empirically. The course outline includes an overview of population issues, labor force, labor supply, labor demand, labor market, wages, human resource investment, labor mobility, discrimination in the labor market, labor unions, unemployment, and the labor market in developing countries.
Throughout this course, students will examine the economic determinants of population change and demographic behavior including household formation, marriage, child bearing and rearing, mortality (and especially infant mortality) and key forms of human capital investment including schooling and migration. We will apply analytical tools of economics to investigate various economic and social consequences of population change.
The consequences studied include the economic impact of population change, including analyzing consequences of high or low population growth under Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian framework; consequences of population dynamics on macroeconomics, particularly the saving and investment, labor market structure, and fiscal solvency. Although Indonesia is still considered to have a growing population, the course will also discuss developed countries issue of declining fertility and aging population, their economic consequences, and different policy options to address the issue (e.g. government subsidy for family policies).
This course is offered to Master Degree's students at the Graduate Program of Population and Labour Economics, Universitas Indonesia. In this course, students will discuss theories and empirical studies related to fertility and mortality transitions in both developed and developing countries. The course will also explore family planning as an important contributor to the demographic transition, particularly in developing countries.