Dr. Arends-Kuenning is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include children’s schooling and child labor, household consumption, gender roles in agriculture, and international migration. She examines the implications of household decisions for household members’ present and future well-being. Current research focuses on women’s decision-making power on smallholder farms in Brazil and on agricultural household decisions and their implications for harvest and postharvest losses. She teaches a graduate course on Impact Evaluation.
Professor; Acting Associate Dean of International Programs
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