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Codrina Rada is a Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, where she has held academic positions since 2007, progressing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and now full Professor (since 2022). She earned her PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in 2007 and is fluent in Romanian. Her research focuses on macroeconomic dynamics, including growth, income distribution, structural change, and gender economics, employing structuralist modeling and econometric methods.
Her primary research interests include:
- Macroeconomic interactions between inequality and growth
- Sectoral contributions to labor share decline
- Distributive cycles and secular stagnation
- Gender-based labor allocation in developing economies
- Demographic impacts of aging and migration
Recent publications (2021-2025) predominantly analyze US labor share dynamics, structural change, and distributive cycles, with recurring themes of stagnation, productivity-wage decoupling, and policy implications. Methodologically, her work combines econometric analyses (SVAR, Divisia decomposition) with theoretical frameworks from Keynesian, Classical, and structuralist traditions.
She has secured external grants including:
- 'US Labor Share' from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (2018-2020)
- 'Migration Impacts on Older Parents in Romania' from the Center on Aging (2010)
She actively advises PhD students through thesis research courses and teaches macroeconomics, international economics, and advanced research methodologies. Her collaborative projects involve researchers from the University of Utah and international institutions, focusing on labor economics and structural transformation.
