Research on Households
Shoshana Grossbard, a pioneer on research about households and families, is “the premier economist currently engaged in research on the economics of marriage and .. the economics of the household” (Michael Grossman, NBER), “a leading figure in family economics” (Edward P. Lazear, Stanford U) and “widely known for her work on the economics of the family” (James J. Heckman, U of Chicago). She published the first non-cooperative model of household decision-making in 1984 and has applied it to analyze labor supply, health outcomes, household production and care work, fertility, consumption, marital status, in close to 90 publications.
Trained as an economist at the U of Chicago (Gary Becker PhD), most of her articles appeared in economics journals, but she also published in sociology, demography and anthropology journals and interdisciplinary books. Currently a member of the Family Inequality Network, U of Chicago, scholar in residence and Professor of Economics emerita at San Diego State University and a research fellow at IZA , CESifo and GLO, she has been a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Shoshana is ranked among the top 5% of women in economics and among 8% of all economists in terms of Number of Citations, Weighted by Number of Authors and Recursive Impact Factors, Discounted by Citation Age according to REPEC (Research Papers in Economics); more than 5700 people follow her when she tweets as @econoflove. She is the current and founding editor of the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO; publishing e.g. on COVID19 AND ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD) and founded the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO).