Craig School of Business

Abhilasha Srivastava

Assistant Professor

Economics | 559.278.4932 | Office: PB321

asrivastava@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education

Ph.D. Economics, American University

Courses Taught

ECON 40. Principals of Microeconomics
ECON 115 T. Political Economy of Global Capitalism
ECON 192. Senior Project

Abhilasha Srivastava is an Assistant Professor of Economics at CSUSB. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Graduate Certificate on Gender Analysis in Economics from American University, Washington DC. Her areas of interest are political economy, feminist theory, and development economics. Her research focuses on economic exclusion, and violence, and interrogates relationships between productive and reproductive labor, inequalities of gender, race/caste, and class and economic development. Her research has been published at Population and Development Review, Review of Radical Political Economy and her engaged scholarship appears in popular web-magazines. She is a member of the Dollar & Sense Collective, based in Boston.

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PvSq4BYAAAAJ.

Srivastava, A., & Willoughby, J. (2023). Capital, Caste, and Patriarchy: Theory of Marriage Formation in India. Review of Radical Political Economics, 55(1), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134221080200.

Srivastava, Abhilasha. (2020). "Time Use and Household Division of Labor in India—Within-Gender Dynamics". Population and Development Review. 46 (2): 249-285.

Srivastava, Abhilasha, and Floro, Maria. (2017). “The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Squeeze in South Africa.” In Rachel Connelly and Ebru Kongar (Ed.), Gender and Time use in Global Context. Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland, pp 193-230.

Srivastava, Abhilasha. (2012). “Micro-finance, Entrepreneurship and Gender Biases: Constraints for Women and Unequal Outcomes.” In R.B.S. Verma, R.K. Singh, and Pooja Verma (Ed.), Shades of Inclusion and Exclusion in India. India: New Royal Publishers, pp. 123-456.