Nilufer Cagatay

Çağatay was born in Turkey in 1955. She earned a BA in economics and political science at Yale University and gained a MA and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. == Career ==

Çağatay worked in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah between 1991 and 2021. From 1997 to 2000, Çağatay took a leave of absence from the University of Utah to work as an Economic Advisor in the Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division of the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Çağatay was regarded as a pioneer in adding a gender-awareness to the study of the macroeconomy and the development of a feminist macroeconomics. She died in on 23 December 2022. ==Selected publications==

• Çağatay, N., & Özler, Ş. (1995). Feminization of the labor force: The effects of long-term development and structural adjustment. World development, 23(11), 1883–1894. • Cagatay, N. (1998). Gender and poverty. New York: UNDP, Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division. • Çagatay, N. (2001). Trade, gender and poverty. New York: UNDP. • Elson, D., & Cagatay, N. (2000). The social content of macroeconomic policies. World Development, 28(7), 1347–1364. ==References==