| Name | Organization | Areas of Interest | Other Languages | |
| Bittman, Michael | University of New England USA |
michael.bittman@une.edu.au mbittman47@gmail.com |
Care work; family structure; families; work-family balance; child care; paid work; leisure and health, children’s time-use and health, cognitive and socio-emotional development. Regional Focus: Australia, Europe | |
| Booth, Alison | Australian National University Australia |
alison.booth@anu.edu.au | Labor economics; economics of education; behavioral economics, cultural influences on economic preferences and their impact on economic outcomes; the economics of gender; trade union effects on the wages and welfare of rural-urban migrants in China; labor, education, gender, trade unions. Regional Focus: Australia, China | |
| Chen, Martha | Harvard University | martha_chen@hks.harvard.edu | Employment, gender, and poverty; the working poor in the informal economy; earning differentials; earnings discrimination; economic anthropology; employment discrimination; empowerment; female labor-force participation; feminization of the labor force; gender segmentation; gender wage gap. Regional Focus: Bangladesh, India, Latin America, Global South | Hindi Bengali Urdu Sanskrit French |
| Chiteji, Ngina | New York University, US | nc518@nyu.edu, old: nchiteji@skidmore.edu | Public policy, macroeconomics, economic inequality, crime, the distribution of household wealth, wealth accumulation and retirement savings; macroeconomic theory; monetary economics and economic development; financial development; labor economics. Regional Focus: US | |
| Cregan, Christine | University of Melbourne Australia |
ccregan@unimelb.edu.au | Disadvantaged groups in the labor market including people with disabilities, Aborigines, older workers, and layoff survivors; trade union organizing; gender in the labor market; trade union membership; young people in the labor market; internal labor markets; industrial democracy.Regional Focus: Australia | |
| Daly, Anne | University of Canberra Australia |
anne.daly@canberra.edu.au | The economic status of Indigenous Australians, the gender pay gap, immigration, the economics of education; socioeconomic policy; public sector reform; labor economics; gender pay gap; the interaction between the welfare system and labor force participation.Regional Focus: Australia | |
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| Eilor, Elizabeth | awepon@africaonline.co.ug | |||
| El Bakri, Zeinab | The Inspection Panel The World Bank |
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| Elias, Juanita | The University of Warwick, UK |
juanita.elias@warwick.ac.uk | International political economy; gendered approaches to the study of international political economy and globalization; the household in global political economy; political economy of Malaysia; labor migration in Southeast Asia; the changing nature of women’s work in the global economy; labor standards and corporate codes of conduct; masculinities and international politics; the crisis of care in austerity Britain. Regional Focus: Malaysia, Southeast Asia, UK | |
| Espinosa Gonzalez, Isolda |
Labor economics, time-use studies. Regional Focus: Nicaragua |
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| Fontana, Marzia | London School of Economic, UK | Trade and growth, gender, social and economic dimensions of inequality; unpaid work, labor markets and international trade, gendered patterns of time use gender dimensions of rural employment. Regional Focus: Developing countries, Africa, Bangladesh | ||
| Ghosh, Jayati | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India | jayati@mail.jnu.ac.in jayatijnu@gmail.com jayatig@bol.net.in |
Development economics, international economics, employment, gender, finance, Indian economy, globalization; employment patterns in developing countries; macroeconomic policy; issues related to gender and development, capitalism, development, employment, export-oriented growth. Regional Focus: India | |
| Hill, Elizabeth | University of Sydney, Australia | elizabeth.hill@sydney.edu.au | Gender, work and care in developed and emerging economies; women’s work and collective action in the Indian informal economy; work and care policy in the Australian economy. Keywords: the informal economy, informal workers and worker movements; work and family policy, gender and economic development, the Indian economy. Regional Focus: Australia, India | |
| Hill, Trish | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | p.hill@unsw.edu.au | Feminist economic analyses in the fields of poverty and inequality, informal care across the lifecourse, social inclusion and exclusion, time-use and work-care balance. Keywords: social policy, family and household studies, human geography, gender specific studies, distribution of income and wealth, carers’ development and welfare, time use, unpaid work and volunteering, work and family responsibilities. Regional Focus: Australia | |
| Hisali, Eria | Makerere University, Uganda | ehisali@bams.makac.ug | International economics, financial economics, monetary economics, total factor productivity growth in Uganda and its decomposition into various sources; total factor productivity of the telecommunications industry; remittances and poverty reduction; aid, fiscal policy consistency, and price stabilization. Regional Focus: Uganda | |
| Holvoet, Nathalie | University of Antwerp, Belgium | nathalie.holvoet@uantwerpen.be | Monitoring and evaluation and different aid modalities; macro and micro-perspectives of gender and development; gender budgeting; gender and different aid modalities; intrahousehold resource allocation; gender and climate change; gender and natural resource management. | |
| Jefferson, Therese | Curtin University, Australia | therese.jefferson@gsb.curtin.edu.au | Feminist economics; gendered aspects of paid and unpaid work; the research methods employed by economists to investigate questions of gender and pay; Post Keynesian economics; social and economic implications of wage fixing structures; industrial relations; economic contribution of unpaid labor; gender and economic policy; women’s approaches to saving for retirement; household decision making; Critical Realism; research methodology. Regional Focus: Australia | |
| Kaaria, Susan | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) | susankaaria@fao.org | Participatory approaches for catalyzing rural innovation processes; increasing access and benefits from market opportunities by poor rural women and men; generating knowledge and methodologies for reducing gender inequalities in the agricultural sector and promoting rural women’s social and economic empowerment. Keywords: Forest resource economics; community systems; marginalized communities; poor rural women. Regional Focus: Keya, Uganda, Nairobi, Africa | |
| Kabajulizi, Judith | Coventry University, UK | ac5175@coventry.ac.uk | Macroeconomics, health economics, development economics; external debt in Africa; peace and conflict resolution; tax policy. Regional Focus: Uganda | |
| Kabubo-Mariara, Jane | University of Nairobi, Kenya | jmariara@uonbi.ac.ke | The impact and adaptations of climate change on agriculture; environmental and natural resource economics; poverty and income distribution issues, with emphasis on multiple dimensions of child poverty. Regional Focus: Kenya, Africa | |
| Lund, Francie | University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa |
lundf@ukzn.ac.za | The impact of South Africa’s pensions and grants in mitigating poverty and redressing inequality; cash transfers as a form of intervention in addressing poverty and inequality; informal workers, local government intervention, social security, occupational health and safety. Keywords: Informal workers; social protection and the informal economy; political economy; conditional cash transfers; national policy and labor market trends.Regional Focus: South Africa, Global | |
| Martinez-Franzoni, Juliana |
juliana.martinez@ucr.ac.cr martinezfranzoni@gmail.com |
Comparative welfare systems in Latin America; welfare regimes; social policy and inequality in Latin America; the formation of universal social policies on the periphery; cross-national work-family policy in the five Latin American social policy forerunners. Regional Focus: Costa Rica, Latin America | ||
| Menon, Nidhiya | Brandeis University | nmenon@brandeis.edu | The behavior of individuals, households and firms in developing countries, microfinance, labor and occupational choice, gender-differentiated impacts of labor market policies, child health consequences of environmental pollution, land rights and their impacts on economic welfare and children’s human capital, conflict and its repercussions on occupational choice, the effect of policies on people with disabilities, the impact of historical institutions on child health and technology use. Keywords: development economics, applied microeconomics, health, labor, gender, demography.Regional Focus: India, Nepal, Developing countries | |
| Meurs, Mieke | American University | mmeurs@american.edu | Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and Political Econoy, | |
| Mukhopadyay, Abhiroop | Indian Statistical Institute, India | abhiroop@isid.ac.in | Econometric methods applied to education, health and labor in developing countries (especially India), the impact of better school infrastructure on rural schooling attendance, the impact of the distribution of human capital on growth and development the economics of workfare programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India, and the economic effects of HIV-AIDS and cancer. Regional Focus: India, South Asia | |
| Nassar, Heba | American University in Cairo, Egypt | hebanas@aucegypt.edu | Labor markets; international economics; macroeconomics; human resource development and economic integration. Regional Focus: Egypt | |
| Nattrass, Nicoli | University of Cape Town, South Africa | Nicoli.Nattrass@uct.ac.za nicoli.nattrass@gmail.com |
the South African clothing sector and labor-intensive growth, human-wildlife conflict, economic policy, inequality and the political economy of AIDS. Regional Focus: South Africa | |
| Nyamu-Musembi, Celestine | Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK |
C.Nyamu@ids.ac.uk | Land relations and gender equity in resource control, accountability of formal and informal institutions of justice and governance at the local level, rights-based approaches to development, and integrating participatory approaches into rights advocacy. Regional Focus: Kenya | |
| Osili, Una Okonkwo | Indiana University | uosili@iupui.edu | Development economics, household economics, national and international trends on philanthropy. Regional Focus: Developing countries, Africa, Indonesia, US Immigrants | |
| Perez-Orozco, Amaia | amaiaorozco@gmail.com | Critique of development models, social organization of care, welfare states, migration processes, global care chains. | ||
| Pillai, Neetha | neetha@cwds.ac.in | |||
| Plantenga, Janneke | Delete “University of Groningen” and keep “University of Utrecht,” |
j.plantenga@uu.nl J.Plantenga@econ.uu.nl |
Labor market flexibilisation, the reconciliation of work and family and the (European) social policy, unpaid work, changing working time patterns, child care issues, modernizing social security, reconciliation of work and family life, participation effects of child care subsidies, the economics of parental leave, and the market for child care. Keywords: care, childcare, economic policy, economics of the family, household economics. Regional Focus: Europe | |
| Posel, Dorrit | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
dorrit.posel@wits.ac.za posel@ukzn.ac.za |
Marriage markets and dowry, migration, labor, indicators of well-being, and intrahousehold resource allocation. Keywords: labor force participation, labor markets, marriage, migrant labor, unemployment, wages. Regional Focus: South Africa | |
| Rudolf, Robert | Korea University, South Korea | rrudolf@korea.ac.kr | Economics of development, employment, subjective well-being, gender, poverty/inequality, demography. Regional Focus: Korea, China, East Asia | |
| Schoenpflug, Karin | University of Vienna, Austria | karin.schoenpflug@univie.ac.at schoenpf@ihs.ac.at |
Development economics, public economics and public finance, inflation and prices, public transport, gender and economics. Regional Focus: Austria, Europe | |
| Schwenken, Helen | University of Osnabrück, Germany | helen.schwenken@uni-osnabrueck.edu Helena.Schwenken@uni-kassel.de |
Labor migration, migration and gender, economics of care, gender knowledge in migration policital arenas, flight research. | |
| Unni, Jeemol | Ahmedabad University, India | jeemol.unni@ahduni.edu.in | Economic and social policy, issues of informalisation of labor and production systems and the gender implications of this process; the linkages between growth of higher education and the changing profile of jobs due to technology; issues of social protection; labor markets; informal workers; property rights for women; agriculture; gender; labor and development; mobility; globalization; economic reforms. Regional Focus: Inida, Global | |
| Villar, Olga Alonso | University of Vigo, Spain | ovillar@uvigo.es | Economic geography; economic inequality; welfare; labor economics. Keywords: economic geography, inequality, occupational segregation. Regional Focus: Spain | |
| Washington, Ebonya | Yale University | ebonya.washington@yale.edu | Public finance and political economy; the interplay of race, gender and political representation; the behavioral motivations and consequences of political participation; the processes through which low income Americans meet their financial need. Regional Focus: US |