Katherine Moos

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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Professional Experience: 

• Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017-Present
• Visiting Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, 2015-2017

Research Interests: 

• Political economy of policy and the welfare state
• Social reproduction, unpaid household labor, and care work
• Time-use and working-hours legislation

Teaching: 

• Public Finance
• Political Economy
• Microeconomics

Honors and Awards: 

• Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, Civil Affairs and Education (awarded for the dissertation “Essays on the Theory and Political Economy of Economic Policy,” 2017)
• Eberstadt Prize Fellowship (New School for Social Research, 2014-2017)
• University Fellowship (New School for Social Research, 2013-2014)
• Schwartz Research Fellowship (Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, 2013- 2014)

Selected Publications: 

• Moos, Katherine A. (2020) “The Political Economy of State Regulation: The Case of the British Factory Acts," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming.
• Moos, Katherine A. (2020). “The Historical Evolution of the Cost of Social Reproduction in the United States, 1959-2012”, Review of Social Economy, In Press.
• Moos, Katherine A. (2019).  “Neoliberal Redistributive Policy: The US Net Social Wage in the 21st Century”, Review of Radical Political Economics, 51(4): 581-605.
• Moos, Katherine A. (2019). “The Facts and the Values of the Lucas Critique”, Review of Political Economy, 31(1): 1-25.
• Moos, Katherine A. and K. Vela Vellupillai (2014). “Stabilisation Policy—Phillips before the Phillips Curve”, Global & Local Economic Review, 18(1): 5-19.
• Book Reviews:
• Review of “Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict” by Heather Boushey,
• Review of Political Economy, 28(3) and Feminist Economics, 22(4).