UMass Boston

Our faculty are active researchers: Please see the individual faculty pages for more information on books, articles, policy reports and other publications by author.

See our department Working Paper series, revamped and restarted in 2013 (below) for a selection of our most recent works.

2016
2016-01 “Erst Kommt das Fressen”: The Neoliberal Restructuring of Agriculture and Food in Greece
by Charalampos Konstantinidis

2016-01 Household Borrowing and the Possibility of “Consumption-Driven, Profit-Led Growth”
by Mark Setterfield & Yun K. Kim

2015
2015-03 An Evaluation of Factors Affecting Drug Quality: Evidence from the Antimalarial Market in Uganda
by Esther Atukunda & Anne Fitzpatrick
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2015-02  A proposal for a federalized unemployment insurance mechanism for Europe
by Leila E. Davis & Charalampos Konstantinidis & Yorghos Tripodis
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2015-01 Husbandry: A (Feminist) Reclamation of Masculine Responsibility for Care
by Julie A. Nelson
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2014
2014-11 Inequality, Debt Servicing, and the Sustainability of Steady State Growth
by Mark Setterfield & Yun K. Kim & Jeremy Rees
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2014-10 Debt Servicing, Aggregate Consumption, and Growth
by Mark Setterfield & Yun K. Kim
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2014-09 Authenticity, Innovation and the Geographical Indication in an Artisanal Industry: The Case of the Banarasi Sari
by Amit Basole
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2014-08: Determinants and Impact of Subcontracting: Evidence from India's Informal Manufacturing Sector
By Amit Basole
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2014-07: Informality and Flexible Specialization: Labour Supply, Wages and Knowledge Flows in an Indian Artisanal Cluster
By Amit Basole
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2014-06: Sandwiched between Aging Parents and Boomerang Kids in Two Cohorts of American Women
By Emily E. Wiemers and Suzanne Bianchi
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2014-05: The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up
By Emily E. Wiemers
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2014-04: Can Improvements in Schools Spur Building Investments? Evidence from New York City
By Keren Mertens Horn
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2014-03: Do Choice Schools Break the Link Between Public Schools and Property Values? Evidence from House Prices in New York City
By Amy Ellen Schwartz, Ioan Voicu and Keren Mertens Horn
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2014-02:  Expanding Women's Healthcare Access in the United States: The Patchwork "Univers
By Randy Albelda and Diana Salas Coronado
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2014-01: Capitalism in Green Disguise: The Political Economy of Organic Farming in the European Union
By Charalampos Konstantinidis

2013
2013-07: The Power of Stereotyping and Confirmation Bias to Overwhelm Accurate Assessment: The Case of Economics, Gender, and Risk Aversion
By Julie A. Nelson. Published in Journal of Economic Methodology
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2013-06: Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
By Julie A. Nelson.
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2013-05: Assessing the Socio-Economic Consequences of the Rise of Organic Farming in the European Union
By Charalampos Konstantinidis
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2013-04: Fearing Fear: Gender and Economic Discourse
By Julie A. Nelson. Published in Mind & Society
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2013-03: An Empirical Investigation of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India
By Deepankar Basu and Amit Basole
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2013-02: Relative Income and Indebtedness: Evidence from Panel Data
By Michael D. Carr and Arjun Jayadev
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2013-01: Entitlement in a Real Effort Ultimatum Game
By Michael D. Carr and Phil Mellizo