Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (born 1966)^[1] is professor and graduate director within the Women's and Gender Studies department of Rutgers University,^[2] and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2013 to 2014.^[3]

Rodgers has acted as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank,^[4] the World Bank,^[5] co-author of Social Justice and Gender Equality: Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies for the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD),^[6][7] and is an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics.

Education

Rodgers gained her degree and her masters in economics in 1987 and 1989, from Cornell University, and her doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1993.^[8]

Research

The main areas of research that she covers are: feminist economics, labor studies, economics of the family, development economics, and nutrition and food policy.^[2]

Leisure

Rodgers enjoys running, particularly half-marathons.^[2]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Seguino, Stephanie; Berik, Günseli (2011). Inequality, development, and growth. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415609944. 
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (2011). Maternal employment and child health: global issues and policy solutions. Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts, US: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847205100. 
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zammit, Ann (2011). Social justice and gender equality: rethinking development strategies and macroeconomic policies. London: Routledge for the United Nations Research for Social Development (UNRISD). ISBN 9780415897419. 

Chapters in books

• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli (2011), "Engendering development strategies and macroeconomic policies: what's sound and sensible?", in Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zammit, Ann, Social justice and gender equality: rethinking development strategies and macroeconomic policies, London: Routledge for the United Nations Research for Social Development (UNRISD), pp. 1–43, ISBN 9780415897419 

Journal articles

• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (April 2004). "Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in a dynamic East Asian economy". Southern Economic Journal (Southern Economic Association - via JSTOR) 70 (4): 850–875. doi:10.2307/4135276. 
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zveglich, Joseph E. (May 2004). "International trade and gender wage discrimination: Evidence from East Asia". Review of Development Economics (Wiley) 8 (2): 237–254. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00230.x. 
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli (January 2010). "Options for enforcing labour standards: Lessons from Bangladesh And Cambodia". Journal of International Development (Wiley) 22 (1): 56–85. doi:10.1002/jid.1534. 

Papers

• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (July 1994), Indonesia's macroeconomic and trade performance (Development discussion paper)|format= requires |url= (help) 495, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University.  Pdf paper.
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (1996), The impact of protective measures for female workers: some evidence from Taiwan (Development discussion paper)|format= requires |url= (help) 554, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University.  Pdf paper.
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Nataraj, Sita (August 1997), Unemployment and earnings in tight East Asian labor market (Development discussion paper)|format= requires |url= (help) 599, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University.  Pdf paper.
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (November 1996). "A reversal of fortune for Korean women: explaining the 1983 upward turn in relative earnings". The World Bank: Policy Research Working Papers (The World Bank - eLibrary). doi:10.1596/1813-9450-1764.  Pdf paper. (Published November 1999)
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (December 1999). "Occupational segregation and the gender earnings gap". Economics and Development Resource Center - EDRC: occasional papers (Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank) 21.  Pdf paper.
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zveglich, Joseph E. (August 2003). "International trade and gender wage discrimination: evidence from East Asia". The World Bank: Policy Research Working Papers (The World Bank - eLibrary) 3111. doi:10.1596/1813-9450-3111.  Pdf paper.
• Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Menon, Nidhiya (October 2011). "War and women's work: evidence from the conflict in Nepal". Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) Working Paper (Brighton: Households in Conflict Network, The Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) 104.  Pdf paper.

See also

• Feminist economics
• List of feminist economists

References