Elaina Rose

Ph.D. 1993, University of Pennsylvania. Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Department: Economics
Position: Associate Professor
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Research Summary:

Elaina Rose is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. Her research and teaching focus on labor economics, economics of the family and the economics of gender. Her earlier work examined the effect of economic conditions on excess female mortality in India. She has written several papers on the effect of child gender on numerous aspects of household behavior in both India and the United States. The National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health have funded her work on the relationship between parenthood and labor market outcomes and on shifts in marriage patterns in the later twentieth century. Her current research interest is the relationship between family background and military service. Dr. Rose is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Women Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the South Asia Center. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.

Lundberg, S.; McLanahan, S.; Rose, E., (2007), Child Gender and Father Involvement in Fragile Families, Demography, 44: 1, 79-92.

Rosenfeld, J., (2006), Desperate Measures: Strikes and Wages in Post-Accord American, Social Forces, 85, 235-265.

Rosenfeld, J., (2006), Widening the Gap: The Effect of Declining Unionization on Managerial and Worker Pay, 1983-2000, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 24, 223-238.

Western, B.; Kleykamp, M.; Rosenfeld, J., (2006), Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment?, SOCIAL FORCES, 84: 4, 2291-2311.

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