Rachel Connelly
Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics and Faculty Liaison to the Center for Learning and Teaching
Fall 2008
- Principles of Microeconomics
(ECON 101A)
- Principles of Microeconomics
(ECON 101B)
- Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Economics
(ECON 401)
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Phone
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(207) 725-3790 |
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Title
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Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics |
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Department
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ECONOMICS |
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Work Location
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111 Hubbard Hall |
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E-Mail
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connelly@bowdoin.edu
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Rachel Connelly started at Bowdoin in 1985, after completing her Ph.D. in Economics for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since then she has also held positions of NSF/ASA Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau, 1988-89, and Visiting Professor at People's University, Beijing PRC, Fall 1991-Fall 1992 and Peking University, Institute for Population Research, Spring 1991, and Fall 1998 through Fall 1999. She is currently a Research Fellow at the IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor, in Bonn, Germany.
Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan
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Connelly's area of research is at the intersection of demographics and labor markets. She has published articles on the effect of broad demographic trends on the labor market decisions and on the economics of child care. Her research on child care considers both sides of the market-- the demand for child care on the part of families with young children, the labor supply of child care workers, employers use of child care as an employment benefit, and parental child caregiving time. In addition to the study of child care in the U.S. and Brazil, Connelly conducts research on issues related to women's status, education, and migration in rural China and on strategies employers of low wage workers use to keep jobs at home. Her articles appear in The China Journal, Demography, Econometrica, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Feminist Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and The Southern Economics Journal, among others. Her research has been funded with grants from among others: NSF, ILO, W.E. Upjohn Institute, the Joint Center for Poverty Research, the Ford Foundation, and the Sage/Rockefeller Committee on the Future of Work.
from left to right are: Zhenming Xie, Kenneth Roberts, Rachel Connelly, BinBin Lou and Zhenzhen Zheng, all collaborators in our Chinese Rural Women Migrants project.
The picture was taken in Sichuan near one of our research sites.
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Recent projects with Deborah DeGraff and Rachel Willis include: "If you build it, they will come: parents' use of on-site child care" in Population Research and Policy Review (abstract); "The Value of Employer Sponsored Child Care" in Industrial Relations; "The Future of Jobs in the Hosiery Industry" in Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace; and Kids at Work: The Economics of Employer Sponsored On-Site Child Care (read the first chapter here).
With Jean Kimmel recent publications include: The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Employment and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers," in the Southern Economics Journal and "Mothers' Time Choices: Caregiving, Leisure, Home Production, and Paid Work" in the Journal of Human Resources.
With Zhenzhen Zheng recent publications include: "Determinants of School Enrollment and Completion of 10 to 18 Year Olds in China" in the Economics of Education Review, and "School Enrollment and Graduation Rates in Western China Based on the 2000 Census" in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.
With Kenneth Roberts, Zhenming Xie and Zhenzhen Zheng, Connelly recently published "Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan," in the China Journal and "The Effect on Migration on Rural Women's Decision Making," in Migration and Rural Women's Development (in Chinese).
Her newest projects include a study of American mother's time use using the new American Time Use Survey with Jean Kimmel, a study of the settlement of women migrants in urban China with Ken Roberts and Zheng Zhenzhen, and a study of changes in women's labor force participation in China with Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Chen Lan.
In addition to teaching Introductory Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Economic Statistics, Connelly teaches courses on Labor Economics and Human Resources, the Economics of the Family and The Economics of Lifecycles. The latter three courses are all cross listed with the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Connelly has served as the Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program, Chair of the Economics Department, the Women's Studies Committee, the Oversight Committee for the Status of Women at Bowdoin and the Taskforce for Improving the Status of Women. She also spent one semester as the Special Assistant to the President (of Bowdoin) on Gender Equality.
In 2003 Connelly and co-author Jean Kimmel received the Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics for the best article in the Southern Economic Journal, 2002-2003 volume (abstract). In 1986 Connelly received the Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best paper by a recent graduate student, Population Association of America.
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