Research
Link to my Google Scholar page here.
Peer Reviewed Publications & Book Chapters
Research on Feminist Methodology:
Small, Sarah F. (accepted). "What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunites for Feminist Econometrics." Feminist Economics. Available at SSRN.
Small, Sarah F. and Elissa Braunstein. (2023). “Has the Feminist Economics Intellectual Project Lost its Way? An Analysis of the Journal’s Evolution.” Feminist Economics. Link to published article.
Applied Research in Policy:
Small, Sarah F. (2024) “Gender Marker Laws and Access to Emergency Rental Assistance for Transgender Renters in the United States during COVID-19.” Housing Policy Debate. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers. (2023). “The Gendered Effects of Investing in Physical and Social Infrastructure” World Development. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. & Bhavya Sinha. (2023) “Rules are meant to be broken: Arguments in favor of discretionary monetary policy” in Debates in Monetary Economics: Tackling Some Unsettled Questions. Edited by Steven Pressman & John Smithin. Palgrave Macmillan.
Applied Research in Care Work:
Genç, Yazgi and Sarah F. Small (2024). “Supporting Childcare Supply in the United States: An Economic Policy Review and Research Agenda.” Forum for Social Economics. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. (2023). "Patriarchal Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination of Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples." Feminist Economics. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. (2023). "The Political Economy of Hegemonic Masculinity: Race, Income, and Housework in the United States" Review of Radical Political Economics. 55(1): 26-46. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. (2022). “Facing a Care Crunch: Childcare Disruption and Economic Hardships for Maine Parents during COVID-19.” Maine Policy Review. 31(1): 29-38. Link to published article.
Applied Research in Labor:
Han, Eunice S. and Sarah F. Small (2024) “Labor Market Experiences of United States Veterans During COVID-19: Women’s Relative Advantage.” Eastern Economic Journal. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F., Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen, Teresa Perry. (2023). “Immigrant Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intersectional Analysis of Frontline Occupational Crowding in the United States” Forum for Social Economics. Link to published article.
Research in History of Economic Thought:
Small, Sarah F. and Teresa Perry (forthcoming). "Place and Space for Feminist Economists? The Development and Maintenance of Feminist Economics Graduate Training in the United States." Preprint draft available here.
Small, Sarah F. and Jade Ramirez-Barraza (2025). "Barbara Bergmann's Scholarship on the Economic Risks of Being a Housewife" in The Edward Elgar Handbook on Women and Heterodox Economics: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Lynne Chester & Alexandra Bernasek. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Chapter grant funded by the University of Utah's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program).
Small, Sarah F., Laura Beltran Figueroa, Leah Masci, Nishu Mehrish, Iris Riddiford Graham, and Steven Pressman (accepted) “A History of the Eastern Economic Association: 50 Years of Finding Space for Pluralism and Inclusion in Economics.” Eastern Economic Journal. (Grant funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
Small, Sarah F. (2023). "Infusing Diversity in a History of Economic Thought Course: An Archival Study of Syllabi and Resources for Redesign." Eastern Economic Journal. 49(3): 276- 311. Link to published article.
Small, Sarah F. (2022). "Tracing Barbara Bergmann's Occupational Crowding Hypothesis: A Recent History" History of Political Economy. 54 (S1): 193-220. Link to published article.
Research on Pedagogy:
Small, Sarah F. & Laura Beltran Figueroa.* (accepted) “Teaching Time Use in Economics Classes: Introducing Students to Time Poverty and Inequality in Unpaid Work.” Advances in Economics Education.
Small, Sarah F. (accepted) "“Bringing Breadth and Relevance to Introductory Economics Courses Using JEL Codes.” Journal of Economic Education.
Small, Sarah F. (2023) “Generative AI and Opportunities for Feminist Classroom Assignments.” Feminist Pedagogy. 3(5): Article 10. Link to published article.
Book Reviews
Small, Sarah F. (accepted) "Book Review: The Value of Work Since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement, and Theory, Edited by Massimo Asta & Pedro Ramos Pinto." History of Political Economy.
Small, Sarah F. (2022) "Review of Claudia Goldin's Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity." Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. 15:2.
Small, Sarah F. (2020) "Book Review: Collective Bargaining and Gender Equality," Review of Radical Political Economics: 1-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613420959727
Presentations
2024:
Levy Economics Institute Workshop: A Path to Inclusive Development: Unpacking Gender Inequalities in Economic Theory and Policies (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; September 2024): presented "Political Economy of Home Ownership and Masculine-Typed Housework in the United States" coauthored with Bhavya Sinha.
32st International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference (Rome, Italy; July 2024): presented "What is a Feminist Approach to Research in the History of Economic Thought? Methods in the Field"
Invited Seminar for a Creative Community Event with the National Women’s Studies Association (virtual; June 2024): presented "Feminist Pedagogy and Generative AI"
Invited Seminar at the Levy Institute of Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; March 2024): presented "What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics"
Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference (Boston, Massachusetts; February 2024): presented "A History of the Eastern Economic Association: 50 Years of Finding Space for Pluralism and Diversity in Economics"
Invited Seminar at Assumption University (Worcester, Massachusetts; February 2024): presented "Why I am a Feminist Economist"
Diversity in Philosophy of Economics Workshop for Special Issue of Journal of Economic Methodology (virtual; January 2024): presented "Diversity in Feminist Economics Research Methods: Trends from the Global South” coauthored with Aashima Sinha, Odile Mackett, and Elissa Braunstein
2023:
31st International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference (Cape Town, South Africa; 2023): presented "What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Visions and Dilemmas in Feminist Econometrics" and "Experiences using Barbara Bergmann's Archives at Duke University"
Gender, Work, and Organization Annual Conference (Cape Town, South Africa; June 2023): presented "Unions and Men’s Participation in Unpaid Social Reproduction in the United States"
Invited Seminar at St. John's University (New York, New York; March 2023): presented "Infusing Diversity in a History of Economic Thought Course: An Archival Study of Syllabi and Resources for Redesign"
Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference (New York, New York; February 2023): presented “Union Coverage and Men's Participation in Unpaid Social Reproduction in the United States”
ASSA meetings (New Orleans, Louisiana; January 2023): presented "Infusing Diversity in a History of Economic Thought Course: An Archival Study of Syllabi and Resources for Redesign" in IAFFE Session
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) annual conference (New Orleans, Louisiana; January 2023): presented "Infusing Diversity in a History of Economic Thought Course: An Archival Study of Syllabi and Resources for Redesign"
2022:
30th International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference (Geneva, Switzerland; 2022): presented "Has the Feminist Economics Intellectual Project Lost its Way?"
Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference (Montego Bay, Jamaica; May 2022): presented “Has the Feminist Economics Intellectual Project Lost its Way?”
2021:
Western States Graduate Student Workshop (virtual; September 2021): presented “Patriarchial Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples”
Conference on Women and Economics with the Center for the History of Politcal Economy at Duke University (virtual, July 2021): presented "Tracing Barbara Bergmann's Occupational Crowding Hypothesis"
29th International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference (virtual, July 2021): presented "Patriarchal Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples" and "Has the Feminist Economics Intellectual Project Lost its Way?"
Colorado State University’s Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar (Fort Collins, Colorado; March 2021): presented “Patriarchal Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples”
Research Workshop with the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina; February 2021): presented “Tracing Barbara Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Hypothesis”
2020:
Colorado State University’s Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar (Fort Collins, Colorado; November 2020): presented “Tracing Barbara Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Hypothesis”
Western Social Science Association Conference (virtual, June 2020): presented “The Political Economy of Hegemonic Masculinity: Class, Race, and Work”
46th Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference (Boston, Massachusetts; January 2020): presented “Hegemonic Masculinity: Men, Racism, and Work”
ASSA meetings (San Diego, California; January 2020): presented “The Political Economy of Hegemonic Masculinity” in URPE & IAFFE joint Session
2019:
Colorado State University’s Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar, (Fort Collins, Colorado; October 2019): presented “Hegemonic Masculinity and Household Bargaining: Men, Women, and Work”
Western States Graduate Student Workshop (Fort Collins, Colorado; September 2019): presented “Hegemonic Masculinity Under Capitalism: Work & Wellbeing”
28th International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference (Glasgow, Scotland; June 2019): presented “Hegemonic Masculinity Under Capitalism: Women, Work, and Wellbeing”
46th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society (New York, New York; June 2019): presented “John Stuart Mill’s Subjection of Women: A 150th Anniversary Retrospective”
45th Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference (New York, New York; March 2019): presented “Basic Income Guarantees and Feminist Support from the Perspective of John Stuart Mill”
2018:
The Great Transition (Montreal, Canada; May, 2018): presented “Basic Income Guarantees from the Feminist Perspective of John Stuart Mill”
2017
North American Basic Income Congress (New York, New York; June 2017): presented “Basic Income Guarantees from the Feminist Perspective of John Stuart Mill”
2016
Assumption University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Worcester, Massachusetts; April 2016): presented “Examining the Impact of Female Labor Force Participation on Domestic Violence Rates in India”