Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

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Mary P Arends-Kuenning

Associate Professor
Affiliate of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
Email: marends@illinois.edu
Phone: 217-333-0753

Education

M.A., University of Chicago, 1989
M.S., University of Michigan, 1992
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997

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Teaching

ACE 474: Economics of Consumption
ACE 502: Demand, Supply, Firms and Households
ACE 570: Family and Consumption Economics

Research

Children's schooling and child labor in developing countries, fertility and contraceptive use in developing countries, social learning, immigration and health care labor in the U.S., economics of the household.

Highlighted Publications

S. S. Lim, A. Winter-Nelson, and M. Arends-Kuenning. 2007. “Household bargaining power and agricultural supply response: Evidence from Ethiopian coffee growers.” World Development 35(7):1204-1220.

M. Arends-Kuenning. 2006. “The Balance of Care: Trends in the Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000.” Globalizations 3(3): 333-348.

M. Arends-Kuenning and S. Duryea. “The Effects of Parental Presence, Parents’ Education, and Household Headship on Children’s Schooling and Work in Latin America.”Journal of Family and Economic Issues.
Published online at http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=d522610w6062x161

A. Ahmed and M. Arends-Kuenning. 2006. “Do Crowded Classrooms Crowd Out Learning? Evidence from the Food for Education Programme in Bangladesh.” World Development 34(4):665-684

M. Arends-Kuenning and S. Amin. 2004. “School Incentive Programs and Children’s Activities: The Case of Bangladesh.” Comparative Education Review 48(3): 295-317.

S. Duryea and M. Arends-Kuenning. 2003. “School Attendance, Child Labor, and Local Labor Markets in Urban Brazil.” World Development 31(7): 1165–1178.

M. Arends-Kuenning. 2001. “How Do Family Planning Workers’ Visits Affect Women’s Contraceptive Behavior in Bangladesh?” Demography, 38(4): 481–496.