Diana Fletschner
Diana Fletschner
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 229
fletschn@u.washington.edu
206.616.1297
Areas of Specialization:
Development Economics, Intrahousehold Decision-Making, Economics of Gender, Group Effects, Rural Microfinance, and Food Security in Developing Countries
Diana Fletschner joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Her current research evaluates the potential impact of enhancing rural women’s access to credit. She analyzes the notion that rural women’s more restricted access to capital may not be compensated with intrafamily transfers once spouses’ preferences and bargaining power are taken into account. In addition, she explores the idea that rural women’s demand for capital may be socially-constructed as their role in the economy is shaped by social norms. She has done research and worked with NGOs in Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Colombia.
She is a board member of the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) and has served as a member of the Oversight Committee of the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund). She was awarded the Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award (2003); received the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate Student Mentor Award (2001); and was a MacArthur Foundation Global Studies Scholar (1998 and 1999).
Before coming to the United States, she lived in Paraguay working as a computer consultant and severing as an assistant professor in the Economics and Computer Science Departments of the Universidad Nacional and Universidad Católica.
Fletschner holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics and a M.Sc. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a BA in economics and a BA in computer science from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción-Paraguay.
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