CSDE Research Areas:
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Heath Co-authors New Working Paper on Women's Political Participation (05/23/2024)
- Knox and Heath Receive Grant to Study Retention of Women in Economics (09/29/2023)
- Population Health Initiative COVID-19 Grants Catalyzed UW Research Community (03/23/2021)
- CSDE Affiliates Awarded PHI COVID-19 Grants (05/02/2020)
- Study by Rachel Heath Cited in Article on Impacts of Ready-Made Garment Industry in Bangladesh (01/16/2018)
Rachel Heath's research focuses on the expansion of job opportunities in developing countries: how workers get access to these jobs and the consequences of these new opportunities for the lives of current and potential future workers. Since these jobs are often higher-paying and more reliable than jobs previously available to women in particular, they fundamentally change the value of work (relative to marriage and childbearing) and women’s bargaining power relative to their husbands and other family members.