Katherine Moos
Economist, Program on Gender and Care Work and Assistant Professor of Economics
Katherine Moos is an Economist in PERI's Gender and Care Work Program and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at The New School for Social Research in 2017. Her dissertation, Essays on The Theory and Political Economy of Policy, received the Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, Civil Affairs and Education. Her research interests center on the relationship between economic policy, care work, and time use. In particular, Dr. Moos is interested in the political economy of working hours regulation, including efforts to expand access to paid and unpaid family medical leave. She has also written and published on macroeconomic policy and theory. Prior to her appointment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PERI, Dr. Moos taught economics at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also worked for various non-profit advocacy organizations focused on domestic poverty and the U.S. social safety net.
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Research Areas
Recent Research
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A Comparison of the Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the United States and United Kingdom, 1973–2013
June 2023
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The Distribution of the Cost of Cuban Social Reproduction in 2016: The Relative Contributions of Domestic and Diasporic Households, the Private Sector, and the State
December 2022
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The State's Response to the Crisis of Neoliberalism: A Comparison of the Net Social Wage in China and the United States, 1992-2017
April 2022
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Coronavirus Fiscal Policy in the United States: Lessons from Feminist Political Economy
October 2020
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Neoliberal Redistributive Policy: The U.S. Net Social Wage in the 21st Century
January 2018