# Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Yana van der Meulen 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 works regularly as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations. She has authored numerous journal articles in economics and has written two books. From 2018 to 2024 she served as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2013 to 2014.
Rodgers serves as an associate editor of the journals Feminist Economics; World Development; and Gender, Work and Organization.

## Education

Rodgers earned her BA in economics in 1987 from Cornell University, and her MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1989 and 1993.

## Research

The main areas of research that she covers are: feminist economics, labor studies, health economics, and development economics.

## Publications
### Books

* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (23 November 2018). The global gag rule and women's reproductive health: Rhetoric versus reality. New York: Oxford University Press (2018). ISBN 9780190876128.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Seguino, Stephanie; Berik, Günseli (2011). Inequality, development, and growth. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415609944.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (2011). Maternal employment and child health: global issues and policy solutions. Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts, US: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847205100.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zammit, Ann (2011). Social justice and gender equality: rethinking development strategies and macroeconomic policies. London: Routledge for the United Nations Research for Social Development (UNRISD). ISBN 9780415897419.

### Chapters in books

* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli (2011), "Engendering development strategies and macroeconomic policies: what's sound and sensible?", in Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zammit, Ann (eds.), Social justice and gender equality: rethinking development strategies and macroeconomic policies, London: Routledge for the United Nations Research for Social Development (UNRISD), pp. 1–43, ISBN 9780415897419

### Journal articles

* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (April 2004). "Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in a dynamic East Asian economy". Southern Economic Journal. 70 (4): 850–875. doi:10.2307/4135276. JSTOR 4135276.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zveglich, Joseph E. (May 2004). "International trade and gender wage discrimination: Evidence from East Asia". Review of Development Economics. 8 (2): 237–254. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00230.x. S2CID 6900591.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli (January 2010). "Options for enforcing labour standards: Lessons from Bangladesh And Cambodia". Journal of International Development. 22 (1): 56–85. doi:10.1002/jid.1534.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Gammage, Sarah; Kabeer, Naila (January 2016). "Introduction: Voice and agency: where are we now?". Feminist Economics. 22 (1): 1–29. doi:10.1080/13545701.2015.1101308. S2CID 146657580.

### Papers

* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (July 1994), Indonesia's macroeconomic and trade performance (Development discussion paper), vol. 495, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University. Pdf paper.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (1996), The impact of protective measures for female workers: some evidence from Taiwan (Development discussion paper), vol. 554, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University. Pdf paper.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Nataraj, Sita (August 1997), Unemployment and earnings in tight East Asian labor market (Development discussion paper), vol. 599, Harvard: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University. Pdf paper.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen (November 1996). "A reversal of fortune for Korean women: explaining the 1983 upward turn in relative earnings". Policy Research Working Papers. doi:10.1596/1813-9450-1764. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Pdf paper. (Published November 1999)
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph E. (December 1999). "Occupational segregation and the gender earnings gap". Economics and Development Resource Center - EDRC: Occasional Papers. 21. Pdf paper.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Berik, Günseli; Zveglich, Joseph E. (August 2003). "International trade and gender wage discrimination: evidence from East Asia" (PDF). Policy Research Working Papers. 3111. doi:10.1596/1813-9450-3111. hdl:10986/18124. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Pdf paper.
* Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Menon, Nidhiya (October 2011). "War and women's work: evidence from the conflict in Nepal". Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) Working Paper. 104. Pdf paper.