Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

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van der Meulen Rodgers on the Rutgers University campus in February 2018

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (* 1966 ) is a Dutch - American economist and university lecturer .

Career, research and teaching

Van der Meulen Rodgers studied at the Cornell University , she at 1987 as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics graduate . She then moved to Harvard University . There she graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts and in 1993 with a Ph.D. in economics. From August of that year she worked as an assistant professor and from 1998 as an associate professor at the College of William & Mary . In 2004 she moved to Rutgers University as an associate professor , where she was hired in the Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies . In April 2012 she was appointed full professor , and in 2018 she took over the faculty management.

The focus in research and teaching of van der Meulen Rodgers are in the areas of development economics , the labor economics , the feminist economics and health economics .

As the successor to Agneta Stark , she was President of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2013 to 2014 . Since 2005 she has been a co-editor of the periodical Feminist Economics . She has worked as a consultant for the United Nations , the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, among others .

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