BIO

Elissa Braunstein is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Prior to joining CSU, she was an Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she completed her Ph.D. She also holds an M.A. in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego. Professor Braunstein specializes in gender, international economics, and the economics of the household, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment in development. Her current work focuses on gender wage inequality and foreign direct investment in mainland China, the gender-differentiated employment impact of deflationary monetary policy in developing countries, and the relationship between state tax policy and women’s employment in the U.S.