Economist Researching Households & Health
Shoshana Grossbard (aka Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman, and Amyra Grossbard) born October 23, 1948; scholar in residence and professor emerita in economics at San Diego State University; member of the Family Inequality Network, HCEO, U of Chicago and a research fellow at IZA , CESifo and GLO; has been a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a well-published scholar with close to 100 publications as well as the founder of two organizations related to household economics: a journal, the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO) founded in 2001 (she remains its editor in chief) and the Society of Economics of the Household.
A student of Gary Becker, T.W. Schultz and James Heckman at the University of Chicago and of Jacob Mincer, she is a pioneer in economics of the household (which analyzes all decisions made by households at both the micro-economic and macro-economic level) and economics of marriage: she is “widely known for her work on the economics of the family” (James J. Heckman) and “the premier economist currently engaged in research on the economics of marriage and .. the economics of the household” ac. to Michael Grossman). Her "A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage," Economic Journal, the first non-cooperative model of decision-making by individuals who consume and produce in households, has been recognized by Nobel prize winners Heckman and Angrist. In her theoretical approach marriages and cohabitating couples are viewed as firms, with spouses possibly hiring each other's work in household production, which she calls "Work-In-Household (WiHo). She has analyzed health outcomes including caregiving, labor supply, and consumption, and the impact of laws on such household decisions.
Most of her articles appeared in economics journals, but she also published in sociology, demography and anthropology journals and interdisciplinary books.
Languages: Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Dutch.
Shoshana is ranked among the top 5% of women in economics and among 8% of all economists according to REPEC; more than 7000 people follow her @econoflove tweets and she has more than 3900 citations on GoogleScholar, of which more than1000 in the last 5 years.
The Review of Economics of the Household (REHO) publishes e.g. on COVID AND ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Free access collection available.