Stephanie
Seguino
Professor
Office hours, by appointment
438 College Street
Tel: 802-656-0187
Fax: 802-656-4529
Email:
stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu
I arrived at the University
of Vermont in 1995 after receiving a Ph.D. in Economics from American
University in 1994. My research, while having a variety of
branches,
explores a critical question that became salient as a consequence of
the four
years I spent doing research in Haiti: "Is equity with growth
possible? If so, what are the conditions under which that happy
outcome
might occur?"
An initial effort to answer
that question was an in-depth study of the
South
Korean growth experience. That work, which relied on a
Kaldorian/Kaleckian
theoretical framework, yielded some interesting insights. While
redistribution to (male) wages appeared to have been a stimulus to
growth (it
increased the incentive for firms to innovate), low wages paid to
female workers
in the export sector were a stimulus to growth.
In addition to analyzing
the effects of inequality on growth, I have
investigated the impact of various aspects of globalization on
well-being and intergroup
disparity.
I have explored, for example, the effects of investment liberalization
on wages
and productivity growth, and the effects of economic growth in the
1980s and
1990s on gender inequality in well-being. I have also been
working on how
to measure well-being in a multidimensional way, since single measures
of
well-being (income, education, mortality rates) are insufficient to
capture the
full domain of capabilities with which we are concerned.
A recent project I have
undertaken is to consider why researchers
investigating
the effects of inequality on growth obtain such different and indeed
contradictory results. I argue that the measure of inequality
matters:
household distribution of income has different effects on growth than,
for
example, gender or ethnic wage inequality because they operate via
differing macroeconomic
pathways.
Over the past several
years, I have been fortunate to work with a
number of
international organizations and research groups. I have, for
example, been
a consultant to U.S. Agency for International Development, United
Nations
Development Programme, United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development
(UNRISD), and the World Bank. I am a member of the "Engendering
Macroeconomics and International Trade" Project (GEM-IWG), funded by
the
Ford Foundation, and have taught in their international Knowledge
Networking
Project at the University of Utah for the past 2 summers. I am
also a
Research Associate of the Levy Economics Institute.
In addition to my research
focused on international concerns, I write
about
policy issues in the US. For example, recently, I published
several
op-eds on the proposed Social Security reforms. I have also worked
with
local groups on issues of welfare reform and living wages.
Here is a link to my CV
and
some of my recent photographic
work.
Recent Research:
"Plus
Ca Change?: Evidence on Global Trends in Gender Norms and Stereotypes." 2007 (forthcoming), Feminist Economics.
"Is
More Mobility Good?: Mobile Capital and the Low Wage Low Productivity
Trap."
2007. In Structural Change and
Economic Dynamics, 18 (1): 27-51
"Gender, Distribution,
and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth in Developing Countries."
Working Paper, September 2006.
"The Threads that
Bind: Race and Gender Stratification and the Macroeconomics of
Inequality." Working Paper, November 2006.
"Central
Bank Policy in Anglophone Caribbean and the US: Implications for
Unemployment by Gender and Ethnicity." With J. Heintz.
Working Paper, January 2007.
"Taking Gender
Differences in Bargaining Power Seriously: Equity, Living Wages, and
Labor Standards." 2006. In E. Kupier and D. Barker
(eds), Feminist Perspectives on
Gender and the World Bank, London: Routledge.
"The
Great Equalizer?: Globalization Effects on Gender Equity in Well-Being
in Latin America and the Caribbean." 2007. In
Anwar Shaikh (ed), Globalization and
the Myth of Free Trade. London: Routledge.
"Gender
Inequality in a Globalizing World." Working Paper,
2005.
"The Road to Gender
Equality: Global Trends and the Way Forward."
Working Paper, August 2005.
"Conceptual
Challenges in Assessing Effects of Inequality on Economic Growth."
Working Paper, April 2005.
"Feminist-Kaleckian
Macroeconomic
Policy for Developing Countries." Co-authored with Caren
Grown. Working
Paper, November 2004.
"Is
Economic Growth Good for Well-being?: Evidence on Gender Effects
in Latin
American and the Caribbean, 1970-2000." Working
Paper,
May
2003.
"Does
Gender Matter for Aggregate
Saving? An Empirical Analysis." Co-authored with Maria
Sagrario Floro. International Review of Applied
Economics
17(2): 147-66.
"Gender
Equality through Labor Standards and Living Wages: An Exploration of
the Issues
for Asian SIEs. " Working paper, December 2002.
"Why
are
Women in the Caribbean So Much More Likely than Men to Be
Unemployed
?" Working Paper, May 2002.
"Gender,
Quality of Life, and Growth in Asia 1970 to 1990." 2002. The
Pacific Review 15 (2): 245-277.
"Macroeconomic
Effects of
Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-Oriented,
Semi-Industrialized
Economy." Co-authored with Robert Blecker. 2002. Review
of
Development Economics Vol. 6 (1): 103-119.
"The
Roots of the Asian Financial
Crisis: A Story of Export-Led Growth and Liberalized Capital Flows."
2000.
In D. Saunders, R. Baiman, and H. Boushey (eds.) Political Economy
and
Contemporary Capitalism: Perspectives on Economics Theory and Policy,
pp.
225-35. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
"The
Effects of Structural Change
and Economic Liberalization on Gender Wage Differentials in South Korea
and
Taiwan." 2000. Cambridge Journal of Economics 24 (4): 437-59.
"Gender
Inequality and Economic
Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis." 2000. World Development 28
(7):
1211-30.
"Accounting
for Gender in Asian
Economic Growth." 2000. Feminist Economics 6 (3): 22-58.
"The
Investment Function
Revisited: Disciplining Capital in South Korea." 1999-2000. Journal
of
Post-Keynesian Economics 22 (2): 315-38.
"Gender
Wage Inequality and
Export-Led Growth in South Korea." 1997. Journal of Development
Studies
34 (2): 102-32.
"Export-Led
Growth and the
Persistence of Gender Inequality in the NICs." 1997. In J. Rives and M.
Yousefi (eds.), Economic Dimensions of Gender Inequality: A Global
Perspective , pp. 11-33. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
"Gender
and Cooperative Behavior:
Economic Man Rides Alone." 1996. Co-authored with Thomas
Stevens
and Mark Lutz. Feminist Economics 2 (1): 1-21.