Join us for a conversation with feminist economists Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University), Mayra Pineda Torres (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Kimberly Christensen (Sarah Lawrence College) for a discussion of the economic impact of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. Topics to be discussed include the differential impact by race and class, the impact on poverty rates, and the impact on women’s educational attainment, labor force participation, and economic trajectories. REGISTER HERE.
Yana Rodgers is a Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers. Yana specializes in using quantitative methods to conduct research on women's health, labor market status, and well-being. She has worked regularly as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Asian Development Bank, and she was President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. Yana earned her PhD in economics from Harvard University and her BA in economics from Cornell University.
Mayra Pineda-Torres is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health, labor, and gender economics. She is mainly concerned with topics related to teenagers' and women's equality and welfare, and her body of work explores the health and economic implications of reproductive health care policies. In particular, she has studied the long-run impacts of contraception and abortion policies implemented in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. She has also studied the health and economic consequences of mandatory waiting periods for abortion and targeted regulations of abortion providers.