Research Interests
Feminist Economics
Economic Development
Macroeconomics
Labor Economics
Economics of China
Publications
Knight, T. (2021). "Gender-based Occupational Segregation in China’s Urban Sectors," Asian Journal of Economics and Finance, 3, (01), 23-38.
Knight, T. (2018). “Sex-Disaggregated Employment and Public Spending in China,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 47, (01), 71–102.
Knight, T. (2018, February). “Gender and Public Spending: A Conceptual Model of Employment, and Empirical Application, and Paths for Future Work,” Forum for Social Economics (pp. 1-18).
Content Consultant for: Eboch, M. M. (2017). Race and Economics (Series: Race in America) Minneapolis, MN: Essential Library.
Sivers Boyce, N., Gray, J., Whiting, C., Negri, D., Taylor, L., Mascarenhas, R., Knight, T., and Liang, L. (2017). “Curricular Reform at Willamette University.” International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 8 (02), 156-183.
Knight, T. (2016). “Women and the Chinese Labor Market: Recent Patterns and Future Possibilities.” The Chinese Economy 49 (03), 212-226.
Knight, T. (2015). “Macroeconomic Policies, Paradigms, and Constraints on Equality and Growth [Review of Inequality, Development, and Growth, edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Stephanie Seguino].” Review of Income and Wealth, 61 (2), 394-398. doi:10.1111/roiw.12087
Knight, T. (2014). “The Gender Dynamics of Public Finance: A Chinese and Cross-Country Analysis”. (Doctoral Dissertation). Available at ProQuest Dissertation and Theses. (Accession Order No. 3635635).
Working Papers and Works in Progress
Knight, T. “A Cross-Country Evaluation of Public Spending and Gendered Employment” (Publication with minor revisions decision, revisions completed August, 2017).
“Recent Trends in Gender-Based Occupational Segregation in China” (Work in Progress)
“Two-Sector Model of Employment: Gender and the Household and Business Sectors” (Work in Progress)
“The Evolution of Patriarchy: A New Look at an Old Regime” (Work in Progress)
“Gendered Employment in the U.S.: An Evaluation of the Neoclassical and Heterodox Perspectives”
