Jennifer C. Olmsted

Middle East/Gender Publications:

Norms, Economic Conditions and Household Formation: A Case Study of the Arab World, History of the Family, forthcoming.

 

Post-Oslo Palestinian (un)employment: a gender, class, and age-cohort analysis, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol 3, No. 2.

 

‘Globalization’ Denied: Gender and Poverty in Iraq and Palestine, in The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women's Poverty, edited by Amalia Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller, Paradigm, Boulder, Colorado, 2007.

 

Introduction, Gender Impact of Trade Liberalization in the MENA [Middle East and North Africa] Region, pp. 8-13, Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR), Tunis, Tunisia, 2006.

Gender, Aging and the Evolving Arab Patriarchal Contract, Feminist Economics 11(2):53-78, 2005.

Is Paid Work the (Only) Answer? Women's Well-Being, Neoliberalism and the Social Contract in Southwest Asia and North Africa, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2(1): 112-139, 2005.

Orientalism and Economic Methods - (Re)reading Feminist Economic Texts, in Postcolonialism Meets Economics, edited by Eiman Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela, Routledge, London, 2004. (Selected pages at Google.)

Gendered Occupation and Resistance in Palestine, with Tarek Maassarani, Middle East Women’s Studies (MEWS) Review, 19(1/2), Spring/Summer 2004.

Reexamining the Fertility Puzzle in the Middle East and North Africa, in Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society, edited by Eleanor Doumato and Marsha Pripstein-Posusney, pp. 73-92, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO, 2003. (Preview at Google Books.)

Assessing Religion’s Impact on Gender Status – A comment on ‘The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women’s Labor Supply,’ Feminist Economics, 8(3), November 2002.

Men’s Work/Women’s Work: Employment, Wages and Occupational Segregation in Bethlehem, in The Economics of Women and Work in the Middle East and North Africa, E. Mine Cinar (Ed.), Vol. 4 of Research in Middle East Economics, JAI/Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001.

Telling Palestinian Women's Economic Stories, Feminist Economics, 3(2):141-151, 1997.

Women 'Manufacture' Economic Spaces In Bethlehem, World Development, 24(12):1829-1840, Dec. 1996.

Other Middle East Publications:

Locked in, Locked out of Work, Middle East Report, No. 253, Vol. 39, Issue 4, Winter 2009. Pp. 28-31.

The Physical and Economic Devastation of Gaza, Dollars and Sense, July 2009

The Myth of the Borderless World – Resisting (Post)colonial Economic Hegemony in Palestine, in M. Murphy and S. Dayal, Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, forthcoming (2007).

Structuring a Pension Scheme for a Future Palestinian State, with Edward Sayre in Economic Policy for Palestine, edited by David Cobham and Nu'man Kanafani, pp. 143-171, Routledge, London, 2004.  (Selected pages at Google.)

Induced Wage Effects of Changes in Food Prices in Egypt, with Gaurav Datt, Journal of Development Studies, 40(4): 137-66, April, 2004.

Politics, Economics and (Virtual) Water: A Discursive Analysis of Water Policies in the Middle East and North Africa, with J. A. Allan, in Food and Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa, Hans Lofgren (Ed.), Vol. 5 of Research in Middle East Economics, JAI/Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2003.

Economics of Palestinian Return Migration, with Edward Sayre, Middle East Report, No. 212, Vol. 29, No. 3, Fall, 1999. (Requires JSTOR subscription.)

Thwarting Palestinian Development, Middle East Report, No. 201, Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall, 1996. (Requires JSTOR subscription.)

Other Publications:

How Skill Demands Are Related to Flexible Manufacturing Technology and Management Practices, with H. Frederick Gale, Jr. and Timothy Wojan, Industrial Relations, 41(1), January, 2002.

Welfare and Food Assistance at the State and Sub-State Level: A Framework for Evaluating Economic and Programmatic Changes, with Maureen Kilkenny, Helen Jensen and Steve Garasky, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 83(3), August 2000.  (Requires JSTOR subscription.)

The WIC Program: Background, Trends, and Issues, with Vic Oliveira, Elizabeth Racine, and Linda Ghelfi, Economic Research Service (ERS/USDA) Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. 27 (FANRR27), 2002.

Tracing the Impacts of Food Assistance Programs on Agriculture and Consumers: A Computable General Equilibrium Model, with K. Hanson, E. Golan, and S. Vogel, ERS/USDA Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. 18 (FANRR18), 2002.

Where has all the Gender Gone? – A Comment on ‘Debating Markets,’ with Lynn Duggan, Feminist Economics, 2(1), Spring 1996.

Encyclopedia Entries:

 

Social And Welfare Policies: Central Arab States And North Africa

Women, Gender and Labor Profiles: Arab States

Women, Gender and Development Discourses and Practices: Arab States

in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume IV: Economics, Education, Mobility, and Space, edited by Suad Joseph, et al., Brill, 2007.

 

Economics, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Vol 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources, edited by Suad Joseph, et al., Brill 2003.

 

Economic History: Middle East and North Africa, in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, edited by Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis, Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1999.