ECON 771: Political Economy of Race and Gender
Fall 2014
Dr. Elissa Braunstein
Department of Economics, Colorado State University
elissa.braunstein@colostate.edu
Office: C327 Clark Office hours: TR 4:00 – 5:00 (or by appointment)
Overview
I define political economy as “the study of the impact of group identity and collective conflict on the
organization of economic activity and its consequences.” Political economy traditions tend to focus exclusively
on class as a source of identity and group conflict. In this course, we will expand that focus to incorporate race,
ethnicity and gender, giving you a broad background in economic approaches to inequality and identity based
on race/ethnicity and gender. We will focus primarily on the neoclassical, Marxian political economy and
feminist literatures. In addition to learning more about the relationship between group membership and
economic structures, we will use the prisms of race and gender to better understand and critique various
approaches to economic analysis. And while much of the literature focuses on the U.S. context, I will try to
broaden the discusion as often as possible, and encourage students to do the same.
I welcome students from other social science disciplines. Although we will cover some advanced material that
may be difficult for those who have not completed graduate economics courses, the emphasis will be on the
main points, rather than the technical detail.
The syllabus includes both required readings (*starred) and supplemental readings/sections as I wanted to give
you a more complete sense of the literature if you are interested in looking further into a particular topic. You
can access electronic copies of most of the required readings through the library, except for Glenn Loury’s
book The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, which you should purchase on Amazon.com because we are reading the
whole thing. In other cases, I’ll have electronic copies of the readings available on RamCT.
The syllabus is provisional, and though I have a rough idea of how much time we will take for each section, I
expect to do a lot of planning and negotiating as we move along.
Papers, Exam and Evaluation
I will base your grade on three main components.
1. Class participation & reaction papers (30%)
• Two “reaction” papers to the assigned readings to be shared with other students and me at least one
day before class discussion of the readings. These are relatively informal, low-stakes papers reflecting
on the material, 3-5 pages in length. We will try to distribute responsibility for these so that all of the
assigned readings are covered. Each one will count for 10% of your final grade.
• I will begin every class with some comments on the readings, but most of the class session will be
devoted to group discussion of the readings. Every student is required to participate actively in class
by coming prepared to discuss the assigned material. Participation will be 10% of your final grade.
2. Critical literature review or research paper (20%)
You have two choices for the third paper: (1) a critical literature review, or (2) a research paper. For the critical
literature review, you should go into more detail on a reading that is not required, providing a critical analysis
that links it to the assigned reading and to questions raised in class. The research paper option is pretty wide
open – it just has to be related to the subject matter of the course and okayed with me beforehand. The paper
should be no longer than 15 pages, including references and will be due Thursday, Dec. 11. Each student will
also make a 15 minute presentation of their papers during the last couple of class sessions.
3. Take home final (50%)
I’ll distribute a list of questions the last day of class. It will be due Monday, Dec. 15 at noon.
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Class Policies
Accommodation of
students with disabilities
If you are a student who needs any special accommodations in this class, please let
me know about those needs in a timely way. A verifying memo from the office of
Resources for Disabled Students may be required before accommodation is
provided.
Academic integrity
Any evidence of academic dishonesty, including plagiarism or cheating on exams,
will be penalized with a failing grade for the course and passed on to the Office of
Student Affairs for investigation and possible disciplinary action.
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Reading List
I. Introduction to Feminist Economics (2 weeks)
Badgett, M. V. Lee. 1997. “Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Orientation: All in the Feminist Family?.” In Gender
and political economy: Incorporating diversity into theory and policy. N.Y. and London: Armonk, pp. 61-77.
Drucilla Barker and Edith Kuiper (eds.) 2003. Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics. New York: Routledge.
*Lourdes Benería. 1995. “Toward a Greater Integration of Gender in Economics.” World Development 23(11):
1839-50.
Barbara Bergmann. 1986. The Economic Emergence of Women. New York: Basic Books.
Robert Dimand, Evenlyn Forget and Chris Nyland. 2004. “Gender in Classical Economics.” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 18(1): 229-240.
*Marianne Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds.) 1993. Beyond Economic Man. Feminist Theory and Economics. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press. Introduction & chs. 1 & 2 (pp. 1-53) & ch. 4 (69-93).
*Hartmann, Heidi I. 1979. “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive
Union.” Capital & Class 3(2): 1-33.
Ann Mari May. 2002. “The Feminist Challenge to Economics.” Challenge 45(6): 45-69.
Marianne Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds.) 2003. Feminist Economics Today. Beyond Economic Man. Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press.
*Nancy Folbre. 1994. Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint. London and New York:
Routledge. Ch 1, “Feminist Theory and Political Economy,” pp. 15-50.
*Lisa Saunders and William Darity, Jr. 2003. “Feminist Theory and Racial Economic Inequality,” in Marianne
Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds.) Feminist Economics Today. Beyond Economic Man. Chicago and London:
The University of Chicago Press, pp. 101-114.
Jane Humphries (ed.) 1995. Gender and Economics. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
Julie Nelson. 1996. Feminism, Objectivity and Economics. London and New York: Routledge.
II. Individuals and Groups
A. Methodological Individualism, Preferences, & False Consciousness (1 week)
George Akerlof. 1991. “Procrastination and Obedience.” The American Economic Review 81(2) 1-19.
*Gary Becker. 1996. Accounting for Tastes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Ch. 11, “Norms and the
Formation of Preferences.”
*Samuel Bowles. 1998. “Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other
Economic Institutions.” Journal of Economic Literature 36(1): 75-111.
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. 2000. “Walraisan Economics in Retrospect.” Quarterly Journal of Economics
115(4): 1411-1439.
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. 1993. “The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the
Revival of Political Economy.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 7(1): 83-102.
Geoffrey Hodgson. 2010. “Choice, Habit and Evolution.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 20(1): 1-18.
*Kuran, Timur. 1998. “Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction,” in Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg
(Eds.), Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, New York: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 147-71. Available online.
*Amartya Sen. 1977. “Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory.”
Philosophy and Public Affairs 6(4): 317-344.
B. Group Identity (1 week)
*George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton. 2000. “Economics and Identity.” Quarterly Journal of Economics
115(3): 715-753.
Alan Carling. 1991. “Ethnic Formation,” in Social Division. New York: Verso, pp. 315-345.
*William Darity, Jr., Patrick Mason and James Stewart. 2006. “The economics of identity: The origin and
persistence of racial identity norms.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60: 283-305.
W.E.B. Du Bois. 1971. The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W.E.B. Dubois. Edited with an introduction by
Julius. New York: Random House.
Hanming Fang and Glenn Loury. 2005. “ ‘Dysfunctional Identites’ Can Be Rational.” American Economic Review
95(2): 104-111.
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Glenn Loury. 1987. “Why Should We Care About Group Inequality,” in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Jeffrey Paul and John Ahrens (eds.) Equal Opportunity. New York: Basil Blackwell.
*David Roediger. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness. Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London: Verso,
“On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction,” pp. 3-17.
C. Group Conflict & Collective Action (2 weeks)
*Nancy Folbre. 1994. Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint. London and New
York: Routledge. Ch 2, “Collective Action and Structures of Constraint,” pp. 51-90.
*Russel Hardin. 1995. One for All. The Logic of Group Conflict. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Chs. 2 & 3.
*Jack Hirschleifer. 2001. The Dark Side of the Force. Economic Foundations of Conflict Theory. New York: Cambridge
University Press, Ch. 1.
Jack Knight. 1992. Institutions and Social Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Anne Krueger. 1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.” American Economic Review 64(3):
291-303.
Elaine McCrate. 1988. "Gender Differences: The Role of Endogenous Preferences and Collective Action."
American Economic Review 78, no. 2: 235-239.
Mancur Olson. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
*Elinor Ostrom. 2000. “Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms.” Journal of Economic Perspectives
14(3): 137-158.
*John Roemer. 1978. “Neoclassicism, Marxism, and Collective Action.” Journal of Economic Issues 12(1): 147-161.
D. Evolutionary/Biological approaches to preferences and norms (1 week)
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn. 2010. “The Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the
Plough.” Santa Fe Institute.
Gary Becker. 1976. “Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology.” Journal of Economic
Literature 14(3): 817-826.
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. 2011. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press, Ch. 1, “A Cooperative Species”
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. 1994. “Better than Rational: Evolutionary Psychology and the Invisible
Hand.” The American Economic Review 84(2): 327-332.
Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, and Robert Kurzban. 2003. “Perceptions of Race.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(4):
173-180.
Jared Diamond. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel. The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton.
Economist, The. 2008. “Darwinism: Why we are, as we are,” December 20.
Patricia Adair Gowaty (Ed.) 1997. Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. New York: Chapman & Hall.
*Sue Himmelweit. 2003. “An Evolutionary Approach to Feminist Economics: Two Different Models of
Caring,” in Druscilla Barker and Edith Kuiper (eds.) Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics. London:
Routledge, pp. 247-265.
Tony Lawson. 2003. “An Evolutionary Economics? On Borrowing from Evolutionary Biology,” Chapter 5 in
Reorienting Economics. London: Routledge.
Pagano, Ugo. 2013. “Love, War and Cultures: An Institutional Approach to Human Evolution.” Journal of
Bioeconomics 15(1): 41-66.
1. Gendered Preferences & Evolutionary Psychology
*Ingvil Almas, Alexander Cappelen, Kjell Salvanes, Erik Sorensen and Bertil Tungodden. 2012.
“Explaining gender differences in competitiveness.” Santa Fe Institute
*Uri Gneezy, Kenneth Leonard and John List. 2008. “Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence
from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society.” NBER Working Paper No. 13727.
*Knight, Jonathan. 2002. “Sexual stereotypes.” Nature 415(17): 254-256.
Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee. 2010. “Daughters and Left-Wing Voting.” Review of
Economics and Statistics 92(2): 213-227.
Susan Pinker. 1998. The Sexual Paradox. Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap. New York: Scribner.
*Judith Shulevitz. 2012. “Why Fathers Really Matter.” New York Times, Sept. 8.
Shelley Taylor. 2002. The tending instinct: How nurturing is essential for who we are and how we live. New York:
Times Books.
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Griet Vandermassen. 2005. Who’s Afraid of Charles Darwin? Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Ch. 5, “Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology,”
pp. 119-146.
III. Race/Ethnicity
A. Accounts of Racial Inequality (2 weeks)
Michelle Alexander. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New
Press.
*Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury and Rajiv Sethi. 2014. “Group Inequality.” Journal of the European Economic
Association 12(1): 129-152.
Edna Bonacich. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.” American Sociological Review
37: 547-550.
William Darity, Jr. 1998. “Intergroup Disparity: Economic Theory and Social Science Evidence.” Southern
Economic Journal 64(4): 805-826.
*William Darity, Jr. 2005. “Stratification Economics: The Role of Intergroup Inequality.” Journal of Economic
Finance 29(2): 144-153.
*Roland Fryer, Jr. 2010. “Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination.”
NBER Working Paper No. 16256.
Arthur Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. 2007. "From Dark to Light: Skin Color and
Wages Among African Americans" Journal of Human Resources 42(4):701-738.
*Glenn Loury. 2002. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Glenn Loury. 2004. “The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: The Author’s Account.” The Review of Black Political
Economy 32(2): 75-88.
Manning Marable. 2000. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Second Edition. London: Pluto Press, pp.
1-130.
Manning Marable. 1997. Black Liberation in Conservative America. Boston: South End Press. Section Six, “The
New Racism,” pp. 185-205.
David Roediger. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness. Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London: Verso.
James Stewart. 2010. “Racial Identity Production Dynamics and Persisting Wealth Differentials: Integrating
Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives into Stratification Economics.” Review of Black Political Economy
37: 217-222.
William Julius Wilson. 1999. The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. Rising Inequality and Coalition Polices. Berkeley:
University of California Press. Chapter 1, “Racial Antagonism and the Expanding Ranks of the HaveNots,” and Chapter 2, “Global Economic Changes and the Limits of the Race Relations Vision.”
B. Genetic Differences
*Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. 2002. “The Inheritance of Inequality.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 16(3):
3-30.
James Heckman. 1995. “Lessons from the Bell Curve.” Journal of Political Economy 103(5): 1091-1120.
Derek Neal and William Johnson. 1996. “The Role of Pre-Market Factors in Black-White Wage Differences.”
Journal of Political Economy 104(5): 869-895.
Charles Murray. 2012. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. New York: Crown Forum.
Orlando Patterson. 1997. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis. Washington,
DC: Civitas/Counterpoint. Ch. 4, “For Whom the Bell Curves: The Intellectual and Cultural
Contradictions of Genetic Determinism,” pp. 125-145.
Mason, Patrick L. 1998. "Race, Cognitive Ability, and Wage Inequality." Challenge 41(3): 63-84.
C. Culture
Robert Cherry. 1995. “The Culture-of-Poverty Thesis and African Americans: The Work of Gunnar Myrdal
and Other Institutionalists.” Journal of Economic Issues 29(4): 1119-32.
*Chua, Amy and Jed Rubenfeld. 2014. “What Drives Success?” The New York Times, Opinion in the Sunday
Review, Jan. 25.
William Darity, Jr. 2002. “Intergroup Disparity: Why Culture is Irrelevant.” The Review of Black Political Economy
29(4): 77-90.
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William Darity, Jr. and Rhonda Williams. 1985. “Peddlers Forever? Culture, Competition and Discrimination.”
American Economic Review 75(2): 256-261.
*Patrick Mason. 2010. “Culture and Intraracial Wage Inequality Among America’s African Diaspora.” American
Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 100: 309-315.
Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly. 2008. “No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational
Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants.” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 620(): 12-36.
HaeRan Shin. 2008. “A New Insight into Urban Poverty: The Culture of Capability Poverty amongst Korean
Immigrant Women in Los Angeles.” Urban Studies 45(4): 871-896.
Thomas Sowell. 2002. “Discrimination, Economics and Culture,” in Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan
Thernstrom (eds.) Beyond the Color Line. New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America. Stanford, CA:
Hoover Institution Press.
William Julius Wilson. 2010. “Why Both Social Structure and Culture Matter in a Holistic Analysis of InnerCity Poverty.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 629: 200-219.
D. Affirmative Action
Barbara Bergmann. 1996. In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: Basic Books.
William Darity, Ashwini Deshpande, & Thomas Weisskopf. 2011. “Who Is Eligible? Should Affirmative
Action Be Group- or Class-Based?” American Journal Of Economics And Sociology 70(1): 238-268.
Roland Fryer, Jr. and Glenn Loury. 2010. “Valuing Identity: The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action
Policies” NBER Working Paper No. 16568.
Roland Fryer, Jr. and Glenn Loury. 2005. “Affirmative Action and Its Mythology.” Journal of Economic Perspectives
19(3): 147-162.
Harry Holtzer and David Neumark. 2000. “Assessing Affirmative Action.” Journal of Economic Literature 38(3):
483-568.
Orlando Patterson. 1997. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis. Washington,
DC: Civitas/Counterpoint. Ch. 5, “Why We Still Need Affirmative Action,” pp. 147-169.
Stephen Coates and Glenn Loury. 1993. “Will Affirmative Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?”
American Economic Review 83(5): 1220-1240.
Rothstein, J., & Yoon, A. 2008. “Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences
Do?” NBER Working Paper No. 14276.
William Julius Wilson. 1999. The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. Rising Inequality and Coalition Polices. Berkeley:
University of California Press. Chapter 4, “From ‘Racial Preference’ to Affirmative Opportunity.”
IV. Gender
A. Theories of the Family (1/2 week)
Bina Agarwal. 1997. “Bargaining and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household.” Feminist Economics
3(1): 1-51.
Becker, Gary. 1991. A Treatise on the Family. Enlarged Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Carter, Michael R. and Elizabeth G. Katz. 1997. “Separate Spheres and the Conjugal Contract: Understanding
the Impact of Gender-Biased Development,” in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries:
Methods, Models and Policy, edited by Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.
*Nancy Folbre. 1986. “Hearts and spades: Paradigms of household economics.” World Development 14(2): 245255.
Heidi Hartmann. 1981. “The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of
Housework.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6(3): 366-94.
*Katz, Elizabeth. 1997. “The Intra-Household Economics of Voice and Exit.” Feminist Economics 3(3): 25-46.
Lundberg, S., and R.A. Pollak. 1993. “Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market.” Journal of Political
Economy 101(6): 988-1010.
Manser, Marilyn and Murray Brown. 1980. “Marriage and Household Decision-Making: A Bargaining
Analysis,” International Economic Review, 21(1): 31-44.
Marjorie McElroy. 1990. “The Empirical Content of Nash-Bargained Household Behavior.” Journal of Human
Resources 25(4): 559-83.
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Amartya Sen. 1990. “Gender and Cooperative Conflicts,” in Irene Tinker (ed.) Persistent Inequalities: Women and
World Development. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2003. “What Have We Learned from Research on Intrahousehold Allocation?” In
Agnes R. Quisumbing (ed.) Household Decisions, Gender and Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research.
Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
B. Economics of Marriage
M. V. Lee Badgett and Nancy Folbre. 2003. “Job Gendering: Occupational Choice and the Marriage Market.”
Industrial Relations 42(2): 270-298.
Christopher Brown and Randall Kesselring. 2006. “Declining marriage ratios of young black women: Testing
alternative economic hypotheses.” Review of Black Political Economy 33(4): 27-48.
Darrick Hamilton, Arthur Goldsmith and William Darity. 2009. “Shedding ‘Light’ on Marriage: The Influence
of Skin Shade on Marriage of Black Females.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72(1): 30-50.
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. 2012. “The puzzle of monogamous marriage.” Philosopical
Transactions of The Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 367: 657-669.
Elaine McCrate,. 1987. “Trade, Merger and Employment: Economic Theory on Marriage.” Review of Radical
Political Economics 19(1): 73-89.
Julie Nelson. 1994. “I, Thou, and Them: Capabilities, Altruism, and Norms in the Economics of Marriage.”
American Economic Review 84, no. 2: 126-131.
C. Unpaid Labor & Care Work
Lee Badgett and Nancy Folbre. 1999. “Assigning Care: Gender Norms and Economic Outcomes.” International
Labour Review 138(3): 311-26.
Gary Becker. 1981. “Altruism in the Family and Selfishness in the Market Place.” Economica 48(1): 1-15.
Lourdes Benería. 1992. “Accounting for Unpaid Work: The Progress of Two Decades.” World Development
20(11): 1547-60.
Lourdes Benería. 1999. “The Enduring Debate Over Unpaid Labour.” International Labour Review 138(3): 287209.
Elissa Braunstein, Irene Van Staveren and Daniele Tavani. 2011 “Embedding care and unpaid work in
macroeconomic modeling: A structuralist approach.” Feminist Economics, 17(4): 5-31, 2011
Nancy Folbre. 2008. Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family. Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press: Chapters 1&2 on “Conceptualizing the Costs of Children,” pp. 11-41.
Nancy Folbre and Julie Nelson. 2002. “For Love or Money?” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4): 123-40.
Sue Himmelweit. 1999. “Caring Labor.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 561(1): 27-38.
D. Institutional Economics and Property Rights (1 week)
Bina Agarwal. 1994. A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
*Elissa Braunstein and Nancy Folbre. 2001. “To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality and Patriarchal
Property Rights.” Feminist Economics 7(1): 25-44.
Steven N. S. Cheung. 1972. “The Enforcement of Property Rights in Children, and the Marriage Contract.”
Economic Journal 82(326): 641-57.
Paula England and Nancy Folbre. 2003. “Contracting for Care,” in Marianne Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds.)
Feminist Economics Today. Beyond Economic Man. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press,
pp. 61-79.
*Rick Geddes and Dean Lueck. 2002. “The Gains from Self-Ownership and the Expansion of Women’s
Rights.” American Economic Review 92(4): 1079-1092.
Gerda Lerner. 1986. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Kevin MacDonald. 1995. “The Establishment and Maintenance of Socially Imposed Monogamy in Western
Europe.” Politics and Life Sciences 14(1): 3-23.
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E. Macro & International
1. International Trade, Investment and Finance
Benería, Lourdes. 2001. “Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women’s
Work.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 15(1): 27-53.
Berik, Gunseli, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr. 2004. “International Trade and
Gender Wage Discrimination: Evidence from East Asia,” Review of Development Economics 8(2), pp. 237254.
Robert Blecker and Stephanie Seguino. 2002. “Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in
an Export-Oriented, Semi-industrialized Economy.” Review of Development Economics 6(1): 103-119.
Gunseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Stephanie Seguino. 2009. “Feminist Economics of Inequality,
Development, and Growth.” Feminist Economics 15(3): 1-33.
Elissa Braunstein. 2000. “Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and
International Capital Mobility.” World Development 28(7): 1157-1172.
Braunstein, Elissa. 2008. “Making Policy Work for Women: Gender, Foreign Direct Investment, and
Development,” in Gunseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Ann Zammit (eds.) Social Justice
and Gender Equality: Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies, Routledge, 71-96.
Braunstein, Elissa and James Heintz. “Gender Bias and Central Bank Policy: Employment and Inflation
Reduction.” International Review of Applied Economics 22(2): 173-186.
Braunstein, Elissa and Mark Brenner. 2007. “Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Urban China: The
Differences Between Women and Men.” Feminist Economics 13 (3/4), pp. 213-237.
Cagatay, Nilufer. 2001. “Trade, Gender and Poverty.” UNDP Background Paper. New York: UNDP.
Cagatay, Nilufer. 1996. “Gender and International Labor Standards in the World Economy.” Review of Radical
Political Economics 28(3): 92-101.
Nilufer Cagatay, Diane Elson & Caren Grown. 1995. “Introduction” World Development 23(11): 1827-1836.
Nilufer Cagatay and Sule Ozler. 1995. “Feminization of the Labor Force: The Effects of Long-Term
Development and Structural Adjustment.” World Development 23(11): 1883-94.
Elson, Diane. 1996. “Appraising Recent Developments in the World Market for Nimble Fingers,” in Amrita
Chhachhi and Renee Pittin (eds.) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy: Women’ Organizing in the Process
of Industrialization. New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc.
Diane Elson. 1995. “Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment.” World Development 23(11): 18511868.
Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson. 1981. “Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers: An Analysis of Women’s
Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing.” Feminist Review 7: 87- 107.
William Darity, Jr. 1995. “The Formal Structure of a Gender-Segregated Low-Income Economy.” World
Development 23(11): 1963-1968.
Marzia Fontana and Adrian Wood. 2000. “Modeling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and at Home.”
World Development 28(7): 1173-1190.
Kabeer, Naila. 2004. “Globalization, Labor Standards, and Women’s Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)Action
in an Interdependent World.” Feminist Economics 10(1): 3-35.
Lim, Linda C. 1990. “Women’s Work in Export Factories: The Politics of a Cause,” in Irene Tinker (ed.)
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stephanie Seguino. 2000.“The effects of structural change and economic liberalization on gender wage
differentials in South Korea and Taiwan.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.24, pp. 437–459.
Guy Standing. 1999. “Global Feminization through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited.” World Development
27(3): 583-602.
Irene van Staveren. 2012. “The Lehman Sisters Hypothesis: An Exploration of Literature and Bankers.”
International Institute of Social Studies Working Paper No. 545.
2. Macro Policy & Growth
Elissa Braunstein. 2012. Neoliberal Development Macroeconomics: A Consideration of its Gendered Employment Effects,
Gender and Development Programme Paper Number 14, United Nations Research Institute for
Social Development.
Elissa Braunstein. 2008. “The Feminist Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.” Journal of Economic
Issues, 42(4): 1-21.
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David Dollar and Roberta Gatti. 1999. “Gender Inequality, Income and Growth: Are Good Times Good for
Women?” World Bank Policy Research Report on Gender and Development Working Paper Series,
No. 1.
Elson, Diane. 1998. “Talking to the Boys: Gender and Economic Growth Models.” In Cecile Jackson and Ruth
Pearson (eds.) Feminist Visions of Development: Gender, Analysis and Policy. London & New York: Routledge.
Diane Elson and Nilufer Cagatay. 2000. “The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies.” World Development
28(7): 1347-1364.
Hill, M. Anne and Elizabeth M. King. 1995. “Women’s Education and Economic Well-Being.” Feminist
Economics 1(2): 21-46.
Klasen, Stephen. 1999. “Does Gender Inequality Reduce Growth and Development? Evidence from CrossCountry Regressions.” World Bank Policy Research Report on Gender and Development, Working Paper
Series, No. 7.
Klasen, Stephen. 2002. “Low Schooling for Girls, Slower Growth for All? Cross-Country Evidence on the
Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Economic Development.” The World Bank Economic Review
16(3): 345-373.
Korkut Erturk and Nilufer Cagatay. 1995. “Macroeconomic Consequences of Cyclical and Secular Changes in
Feminization: An Experiment at Gendered Macromodeling.” World Development 23(11): 1969-1980.
Stephanie Seguino. 2000. “Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis.” World
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