About Stephanie Seguino and Elissa Braunstein

Elissa Braunstein is Associate Professor of Economics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She works primarily on issues of gender and macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on international and development dynamics. In addition to modeling care, her most recent research deals with accounting for patriarchy in econometric models of economic growth. Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her current research explores the relationship between intergroup inequality by class, race, and gender, on the one hand, and economic growth and development, on the other. She has also explored the economics of stratification, including the gender and race effects of contractionary monetary policy. She has consulted with a wide variety of international organizations, including the UNDP, UNRISD, UNCTAD, World Bank, AFL-CIO, USAID, ECLAC, ILO, and African Development Bank.