Project description DEENESFRITPL A closer look at gender education and welfare distributions Over the past few decades, there has been an expansion in education, along with a reversal of the gender gap in education. Funded by the European Research Council, the EQUALIZE project aims to investigate the relationship between current trends in family formation, living arrangements, and gender-specific education levels with the spatial distribution of welfare and the emergence of jobless households in modern societies. The project will use various household surveys, as well as the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) project and the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre, the world’s largest sources of census microdata. By conducting an analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels, EQUALIZE aims to establish formal connections between welfare distribution and their sociodemographic factors to reveal valuable insights. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective This project aims to investigate the extent to which current trends in family formation, living arrangements and gender-specific education levels are related to the spatial distribution of welfare and the emergence of jobless households in contemporary societies. Inter alia, we aim to explore whether the welfare disequalizing, impoverishing and polarizing effects that are currently associated with recent patterns in assortative mating, lone parenthood and household composition are offset by an unprecedented phenomenon that is sweeping the world during the last decades: the rapid process education expansion in tandem with a reversal of the gender gap in education. The extent to which these two opposing forces occur and which of them is more influential in shaping the distribution of welfare between and within countries is among the main goals of this project. To this end, we will draw upon a variety of household surveys and the world largest sources of census microdata: the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) project and the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre. Because of their unparalleled geographical coverage and detail, these sources of data constitute exceptional instruments to study socio-demographic phenomena that have been vastly underutilized by the international research community. Triangulating our analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels, we will establish formal linkages between welfare distributions and its socio-demographic correlates to unveil insightful relationships that have been unsatisfactorily explored so far because of the lack of appropriately harmonized, sufficiently detailed and georeferenced datasets. We will strongly emphasize the spatial distribution of variables to unravel local patterns that might take place at highly disaggregated levels, therefore not being discernible to traditional (not as finely-grained) approaches. Fields of science social sciencessociologyfamily studiessocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmonetary and financessocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiessocial sciencessociologygender studiesgender equalitysocial sciencessociologydemographycensus Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-StG-2014 - ERC Starting Grant Call for proposal ERC-2014-STG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-STG - Starting Grant Host institution CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DEMOGRAFICOS Net EU contribution € 1 174 500,00 Address CERDANYOLA V GR UNIVERSITAT AUT BARCELONA EDIFICI E 08193 Barcelona Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 174 500,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DEMOGRAFICOS Spain Net EU contribution € 1 174 500,00 Address CERDANYOLA V GR UNIVERSITAT AUT BARCELONA EDIFICI E 08193 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 174 500,00
