SHOSHANA AMYRA GROSSBARD
Research on Households

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<<2 Sole-Authored Books>>

The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4614-1623-4. Google Scholar citations . This book’s main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. A general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage is presented in Chapter 2. It is shown how a few core concepts related to marriage market analysis—sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage— help explain many aspects of labor supply, earnings, consumption and savings. The book may be of interest to economists as well as sociologists and anthropologists with some mathematical skills. PRAISE FOR THE MARRIAGE MOTIVE Table of Content

On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. reissued by Routledge, 2019. Google Scholar citations This book presents a theory of marriage built around the concept of Work in Household Production for the benefit of a spouse. It then derives many new hypotheses regarding the determinants of various aspects of marriage, divorce, cohabitation, gender relations in the family, women’s power at home, individual consumption, fertility etc. The analysis also leads to improvements in conventional analyses of labor force participation and labor productivity. It is argued that sex ratios affect the status of women in society, women’ labor force participation, and living arrangements. Praise for “On the Economics of Marriage”: when it first appeared in 1993; when it was reissued in 2019. Table of contents: available if you scroll down here. More than 30 theoretical predictions regarding women’s relative power in marriage, divorce, polygamy etc. summarized in Table 4.1

<<2 ARTICLES IN TOP JOURNALS>>

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice," Journal of Political Economy, 96:1294-1302, December 1988. Abstract: This paper hypothesizes that value of time, and consequently labor force participation, can vary with circumstances specific to a marriage or a marriage market. Wives' traits valued in the marriage market are expected to be associated with lower labor-force participation, whereas husbands' traits valued in the marriage market are expected to be associated with lower participation rates on the part of wives. Evidence for these hypotheses is found on the basis of regressions of labor-force participation for a sample of Israeli married women. Inclusion of traits valued in the marriage market and marital sorting patterns increases the explanatory power of the regressions.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage," Economic Journal, 94(4): 863-882, 1984. Abstract: The theory includes both a macro model with a single marriage market and multiple hedonic marriage markets. Central to this theory is the concept of WIHO (Work-In-Household) that consists of household production benefiting the spouse (called Spousal Labor here). Sex ratio effects on labor supply are derived, and compensating differentials in marriage markets are analyzed.

<<5 EDITED BOOKS>>

  • The Economics of Marriage, a volume in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, January 2016. I selected the most influential classic and recent articles which highlight the economic importance of marriage and related institutions. The volume first considers marriage and related outcomes, including cohabitation, matching, brideprice and dowry, and law and economic questions relating to divorce. It then investigates the consequences of marriage and marriage markets for labour supply, household production, wages, consumption, household finance, education and fertility. Includes an original introduction that provides an illuminating guide to the selected articles and places them within the economic and demographic literature

  • Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics. New York: Springer, 2006. Includes entries by Gary Becker: “Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop”, James J. Heckman and Jacob Mincer, and my paper on the New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago. Table of contents

  • Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies Foreword by Jacob Mincer. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Chinese edition published by Shanghai University Press in 2005. Explores how marriage influences the monetized economy as well as the household economy. Marriage institutions are to the household economy what business institutions are to the monetized economy, and marital status is clearly related to the household economy. Marriage also influences the economy as conventionally measured via its impact on labor supply, workers' productivity, savings, consumption, and government programs such as welfare programs and social security. The macro-economic analyses presented here are based on the micro- economic foundations of cost/benefit analysis, game theory, and market analysis. Micro-economic analyses of marriage, divorce, and behavior within marriages are presented by a number of specialists in various areas of economics. Western values and laws have been very successful at transforming the way the world does business, but its success at maintaining individual commitments to family values is less impressive. Contents and Praise here

  • On the Expansion of Economics (with Christopher Clague). Foreword by Jack Hirshleifer. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001. Now published by Routledge. Economics, like most other social sciences, is not a pure discipline. Indeed, it has been enhanced by the fact that there is so much overlap between it and the related fields of business, industrial relations, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This book is one of the first attempts at showing how work in economics has influenced the research practices of related fields of study, and how it has also benefited from exposure to these fields. Table of contents.

  • Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985. Kingsley Davis in association with Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. In the late 1970s I started investigating the institution of marriage from an economic perspective. I wanted to join forces with anthropologists and sociologists. Then famous sociologist/demographer Kingsley Davis and I teamed up, organized a workshop on marriage at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences in 1980-81, and edited this book based on the workshop. The experts contributing to this volume bring a wide range of perspectives―sociological, anthropological, economic, historical, psychological, and legal―to the study of marriage in modern society. A number of essays probe influences other than industrial development, such as strong cultural and historical patterns or legislation and state control. Many of the chapters are still pertinent in the 2020s. CONTRIBUTORS: Grace Ganz Blumberg, Elwood Carlson, Kingsley Davis, Thomas J. Espenshade, Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman, Joy Hendry, Adam Kuper, John Modell, Rachel Pasternack, Yochanan Peres, James E. Smith, Graham B. Spanier, Alan A. Stone, Donald Symons, Lenore J. Weitzman, and Margery Wolf.


    <<ALL JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS >>

  “Household Consumption” in Encyclopedia of Consumption Edited by José M. Labeaga and José Alberto Molina. Edward Elgar forthcoming 2024-25.

“Women, Economics, and Household Economics: The Relevance of Workshops founded by Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, and of Jacob Mincer.” (with Andrea H. Beller, Ana Fava and Marouane Idmansour). Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2024). Onlinefirst

A Model of Demand for Health and Caregiving Incorporating Marriage Markets  (with Lorena Hakak). Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Review, 2023, Forthcoming. Abstract: According to the Grossman model the demand for health-related goods or services varies with the cost of their substitutes produced in the household. This paper contributes to the literature on the demand for health-related products and home care by also considering substitution between goods produced at home by oneself and by one’s spouse or partner. It is argued that marriage market variation such as variation in individual traits of partners/spouses or in sex ratios and changes in laws about marriage or divorce may affect demand for health-related goods and home care by relatives.

“Mothers’ Caregiving During COVID: The Impact of Marital Property Laws on Women’s Labor Force Status.” (with Cynthia Bansak and Crystal Wong). Economics and Human Biology, Volume 47, December 2022, 101170. Abstract: If mothers take care of children more than fathers, then after the onset of COVID-19 mothers’ employment is expected to drop more than that of fathers. This gender gap is likely to be larger where women are less concerned about the financial repercussions of opting out of the labor force, and therefore the gender gap in employment is likely to grow more where community property or homemaking provisions give more protection to homemakers in case of union dissolution. Difference-in-differences and dynamic study estimations applied to CPS data for 2019–2020 show that after the onset of COVID-19 the labor force participation of mothers of school-age children—but not of fathers--dropped more in states with marital property laws more generous to parental caregivers. These results stand in contrast to how these groups’ labor force participation changed after the Great Recession, compared to pre-recession levels.

“Spousal Income Association, Family Composition and Inequality,” (w Lucia Mangiavacchi, William Nilsson, and Luca Piccoli), J of Economic Inequality, 2022. 20, pages 611–638 Abstract: We analyze the association between spouses’ earnings taking account of non-linearities along both spouses’ distribution of earnings. We also document the non-linearity of the relationships between earnings and labor force participation, earnings and couple formation, and earnings and number of children. Using simulations, we then analyze how changes in spouses’ rank-dependence structure, labor force participation and couple formation contribute to the upsurge in inequality in the U.S between 1967 and 2018. We find that an increased tendency towards positive sorting contributed substantially to the rise in inequality only among dual-earner couples, while it contributed little to overall inequality across households. Temporal and distributional heterogeneity are important, as earnings association had a more substantial role in the bottom of the earnings distribution and in recent years. The decline in couple formation contributed substantially to the rise in inequality, while the increase in female labor force participation and the fertility decline had equalizing effects.

“Assessing the New Home Economics with 2020 vision.” (with Andrea H. Beller). In  Constructing a More Scientific Economics: John Tomer’s Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics (Morris Altman, editor). Palgrave, 2022. ABSTRACT In the early 1960s Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer placed households and what they produce at the center of economic analyses dealing with consumption, labor markets, household decisions regarding health, children (fertility and children’s human capital), and marriage. This school of thought was labeled the New Home Economics (NHE). Written sixty years later, in 2020, this article provides a rough assessment of the NHE. It is widely agreed that Becker and Mincer were the NHE’s driving forces, and that it started with their first publications about it. However, there is limited consensus regarding who else belongs to the NHE and the year it ended. Our first contribution is to define the NHE in a way that helps determine which other researchers can be considered as being part of the NHE. Second, we offer an assessment of the NHE’s success based on five criteria: awards to its participants, integration of ideas into mainstream applications of economics, NBER’s inclusion of new applications of economic investigation spearheaded by the NHE, growth of new organizations promoting NHE-related research, and the academic success of early students of Becker and Mincer who specialized in NHE from the time they were writing their dissertation.

“The Gender Gap in citations of articles published in two demographic economics journals” Review of Economics of the Household, (with Tansel Yilmazer and Lingrui Zhang),September 2021, 19(3): 677-697. older version: http://humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wpaper/Grossbard_Yilmazer_Zhang_2018_gender-gap-citations.pdf Abstract: This paper investigates gender differentials in citations of articles published in two journals specialized in Demographic Economics, a field that has traditionally attracted relatively large numbers of women researchers. In contrast to findings based on citations of top economics journals, we find a gender gap in citations favoring women among articles published in the Journal of Population Economics (JPOP) or the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO) between 2003 and 2014 . If the corresponding author is male, having at least one female co-author boosts citations. Across subfields of demographic economics, citations of female authors increase as female representation in the subfield increases. The gender gap in citations favoring women is not found for authors with limited experience past graduate school, which supports an explanation for the gender gap based on authors’ prior experience with economics journals of higher rank.

“Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher than in the EU, and if so, why?” (with Ainoa Aparicio) Review of Economics of the Household, June 2021, 19(2): 307-326. Abstract: The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract COVID. We construct comparable measures of the incidence of the COVID crisis and find that US states had more COVID-related deaths than EU countries. When taking account of demographic, economic, and political factors (but not health-policy related factors) we find that fatalities at 100 days since onset are 1.3 % higher in a US state than in an EU country. The US/EU gap disappears when we take account of health-policy related factors. Differences in number of beds per capita, number of tests, and early lockdown measures help explain the higher impact of COVID on US fatalities measured either 50 or 100 days after the epidemic started in a nation/state.

“Women Pay the Price of COVID-19 more than Men.” (with Enrica Croda) Review of Economics of the Household, March 2021, 19(1): 1-9. Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event with wide-ranging implications. Given that households are at the center of major changes affecting the entire world, the Review of Economics of the Household is publishing a series of issues on COVID-19 and the economics of the household. Here we review eight articles documenting the enormous costs of the COVID containment policies, in particular the school closures that ensued. Individuals paid a heavy cost in terms of disruption in their attachment to the labor force. Children could not go to school and parents were forced to provide extra childcare and spend significant amounts of time helping children continue to learn, while possibly working from home. Domestic violence became more common. These changes have often been traumatic, to the detriment of the well-being and mental health of large numbers of people. Women have paid a higher price than men, as many of the studies demonstrate. Our conclusion calls for policy-makers to prepare for the post-traumatic period: many households will need help.

“Later Onset, Fewer Deaths from COVID” (with Ainoa Aparicio) , Pathogens and Global Health, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2020.1845930 Abstract: We test whether European countries or US states who experienced their first death from COVID-19 at a later date have fewer deaths from COVID 60 and 100 days after the start of the pandemic in their borders. Our sample consists of 29 European countries associated with the European Union and 50 U.S. states and we control for a number of demographic, economic and health-policy related factors that are likely to influence mortality. We find that late starting countries or states registered fewer deaths from COVID-19. Countries/states’ differential reliance on partial or complete lockdown policies helps explain an area’s advantage of being a late starter.

 "Intergenerational Residence Patterns and Covid-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US" ( w Ainoa Aparicio), Economics and Human Biology Volume 39, December 2020, 100934. Older version: "Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US Abstract: We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US states. Controlling for population size, we find that more people died from Covid in countries or states with higher rates of intergenerational co-residence. This positive correlation persists even when controlling for date of first death, presence of lockdown, Covid tests pc, hospital beds per capita, proportion of elderly, GDP pc, government’s political orientation, percentage urban, and rental prices. The positive association between co-residence and fatalities is led by the US.  Our estimates pass the Oster test for selection on unobservables.

“More chores at home: a price immigrants pay when marrying a native?” (with Victoria Vernon) IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 11:16, , 2020. [older version here: “Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey.” IZA DP No. 13340, June 2020.] Abstract: Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent that, compared to native women in all-native marriages, they work longer hours at paid work, household chores or both, while their husbands do no extra work. In some cases they work an extra hour per day. Immigrant men don’t pay such price. Some work 34 minutes less at household chores than native men in all-native marriages, while the native women who marry immigrant men seem to pay a price relatively to what their situation would be in an all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but not for immigrant men. Traditional gender-based privileges may allow immigrant men to prevent native women from capturing a price for the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such ‘male dominance’ scenario also helps explain why immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than other immigrants.

“The Family Economy: Supply and Demand in Marriage Markets” in A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age, edited by Christina Simmons, Bloomsbury Books, 2020. The published version can be obtained at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-marriage-9781350001916/

“Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 161(1): 94-118 PREVIOUS VERSION OF FULL PAPER (with Hazem Alshaikhmubarak and Richard Geddes), March 2019.  ABSTRACT Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman’s right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women’s earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter married women’s property acts (MWPAs). Scholarly interest in the acts’ effects is growing. Researchers have examined how the acts affected outcomes such as women's wealth-holding and educational attainment. The acts' impact on women’s non-marital birth decisions remains unexamined, however. We postulate that the acts caused women to anticipate greater benefits from having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U.S. Census for the years 1860 to 1920. We find that the property acts in fact reduced the likelihood that single women have young children. We also find that the “de-coverture” acts’ effects were stronger for literate women, U.S.-born women, in states with higher female laborforce participation, and in more rural states, consistent with predictions.

 "Women’s neoclassical models of marriage, 1972-2015" in the Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, edited by Robert W. Dimand and Kirsten Madden. London, UK: Taylor & Francis Publishing Group, 2019.

“An Extended Household Model of Eldercare by Children and Children-In-Law based on Far-Eastern Traditions." Review of Development Economics 22(3):1022-1038, August 2018

"Marriage and Marriage Markets” in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, ed. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. [previous draft here]

“Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours.” With Sankar Mukhopadhyay. IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 6:9 DOI 10.1186/s40172-017-0059-y  2017 Abstract: Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with same-sex sibling’s BMI as an instrument and a large set of controls including wage) suggest that a one-unit increase in BMI leads to an almost 2% increase in White married women’s hours of work. However, BMI is not associated with hours of work of married men. We also find that a one-unit increase in BMI leads to a 1.4% increase in White single women’s hours of work, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and varies with expected cumulative spousal income. Comparisons between the association between BMI and hours of work for White and Black married women suggest a possible racial gap in intra-marriage transfers from husbands to wives.

[This article was reviewed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 10.12.2017, Nr. 49, S. 24 Der Sonntagsökonom ÜBERSTUNDEN FÜR ÜBERGEWICHTIGE]

"Common Law Marriage and Teen Births" (with Victoria Vernon) J of Family and Economic Issues 38(1): 129–145, 2017.

"Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?" IZA World of Labor, May 2016. 

Introduction to The Economics of Marriage. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, January 2016.

“Polygamy and the Regulation of Marriage Markets” in The Polygamy Question, edited by Janet Bennion and Lisa Fishbayn Joffe. Logan (Ut.): Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado, 2016.

“Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage—a Beckerian Approach” J of Demographic Economics 81(1): 13-25, 2015.

“Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use”, Research in Labor Economics, Volume on Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, 41: 143-175, 2015. (w. Victoria Vernon.)

“Household Economics”, in James D. Wright, Editor-in-Chief, International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2d edition, Vol 11. Oxford: Elsevier pp. 224-227, 2015. ISBN 978-0080970868.

“Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" Mathematical Population Studies 22(2): 80-100, April 2015. (w. Olivia Ekert-Jaffe).

"How Economists Think About Marriage: Household Division of Labor and Marriage Markets," in Redmount, Esther, ed., The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015.

“Racial Intermarriage and Household Production”, Review of Behavioral Economics 1(4):295-347, 2014. (w. Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina.)

“Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation”, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Special issue in honor of Gary Becker, 3:16, 2014 (26 pages).(w. Victoria Vernon)

“A note on altruism and caregiving in the family: do prices matter?” Review of Economics of the Household 12(3):487-492, September 2014.

“Spousal Love and Children: an Economic Analysis” Review of Economics of the Household 11(3):447-467, September 2013.(with Sankar Mukhopadhyhay.)

“Independent individual decision-makers in household models and the New Home Economics” in Household Economic Behaviors edited by J. Alberto Molina. New York: Springer, 2011.

“How ‘Chicagoan’ are Gary Becker’s Economic Models of Marriage?” J of History of Economic Thought, 32(3):377-395, September 2010.

“Whose time? Who saves? Introduction to a special issue on couples’ savings, time use and children” Review of Economics of the Household, 8(3):289-296, September 2010. (w. Elena Stancanelli)

Shoshana Grossbard. “Far Above Rubies: The Association between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda”, J of Population Economics 23(4):1177-1188, 2010. (w. David Bishai)

“The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households.” Review of Economics of the Household 6:311-326, 2008. (w. Lisa Jepsen)

“Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?” European J of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008. (w. Olivia Ekert-Jaffe)

“Cohort-level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation,” Review of Economics of the Household 5:249-278, 2007. (w. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes)

“Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson’s Unpacking the Household, ” in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, at http://yalelawjournal.org/2007/04/16/grossbard.html  April, 2007.

“Competitive Marriage Markets and Jewish Law,” in The Economics of Judaism and Jewish Human Capital, edited by Carmel U. Chiswick and Tikva Lecker with Nava Kahana. Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006.

“Jacob Mincer 1922-2006” Review of Economics of the Household 4:441-442, 2006.

“The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago” in Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics, edited by S Grossbard. New York: Springer, 2006.

“Women's Labor Supply, Marriage, and Welfare Dependency,” Labour 19:211-241, 2005.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “A Model of Labour Supply, Household Production, and Marriage” in Advances in Household Economics, Consumer Behaviour and Economic Policy, edited by Tran Van Hoa. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “From the Editor’s Desk: REHO and the New Home Economics.” Review of Economics of the Household, 1:5-7, 2003.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage," Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6):609-645, 2003.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. “Marriage and Work for Pay” in  Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies ed by S. Grossbard-Shechtman. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

“Marriage and the Economy” in Marriage and the Economy ed by S. Grossbard-Shechtman. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Xuanning Fu. “Women’s Labor Force Participation and Status Exchange in Intermarriage: An Empirical Study in Hawaii ," Journal of Bioeconomics, 4(3): 241-268, 2002.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “Biology versus Economics and Culture in Research on the Family,” Journal of Bioeconomics, 4(3):191-4, 2002.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “Introduction to Special Issue on Household and Gender Economics,” Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(1), 2002.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Irma Adelman, A Pioneer in the Expansion of Economics: An Interview," Feminist Economics, 8(1):101-116, 2002.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago,” Feminist Economics, 7, 7(3):103-130, 2001.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague. "What is Economics?" Journal of Socio-Economics, 30:1-6, 2001.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” in On the Expansion of Economics. ed by GS and C Clague. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman “The Economics and Sociology of Marriage” ” in On the Expansion of Economics. ed by GS and C Clague. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman “A Demographer on the Cusp between Economics and Sociology: David Heer” in On the Expansion of Economics. ed by GS and C Clague. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001.

Christopher Clague and Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Preface on Economic Development and Cultural Institutions," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 573: 8-15, 2001.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Bertrand Lemennicier. "Marriage Contracts and the Law-and-Economics of Marriage: an Austrian Perspective,"Journal of Socio-Economics, 28: 665-690, 1999.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “Marriage, Theories of,” in Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, edited by Meg Lewis and Janice Peterson. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1999.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “New Home Economics,” in Encyclopedia of Political Economy,  edited by Phillip O’Hara. London: Routledge, 1999.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. “Marriage,” in Encyclopedia of Political Economy, edited by Phillip O’Hara. London: Routledge, 1999.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Clive W. Granger. WP version 1996: "Women’s Jobs and Marriage, Baby-Boom versus Baby-Bust," Population, 53: 731-52, September 1998 (in French: Travail des Femmes et Mariage du baby-boom au baby-bust”). English translation 1998: Women’s Jobs and Marriage, Baby-Boom versus Baby-Bust. French version: https://www.persee.fr/doc/pop_0032-4663_1998_num_53_4_6931

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women’s Labor Supply,",Economic Development and Cultural Change, 46: 491-518, April 1998.[reprinted in Jona Schellekens and Jon Anson (eds.), Israel's Destiny: Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society, Schnitzer Studies in Israeli Society, Volume 12. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2007].

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Matthew Neideffer. “Women’s Hours of Work and Marriage Market Imbalances,” in Economics of the Family and Family Policies, edited by Inga Persson and Christina Jonung, London: Routledge, 1997.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, Evelyn Lehrer and J.William Leasure. “Comment on a Theory of the Value of Children,” Demography, Vol. 33, 1996.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Do Not Sell Marriage Short," Feminist Economics, 1(1), 1995.

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Marriage Market Models" in M. Tommasi and K. Ierulli (eds.), The New Economics of Human Behavior.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.[in Spanish: “Modelos de Mercado Matrimonial” en Economía y sociedadCambridge University Press, 2000]

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman, Dafna Izraeli and Shoshana Neuman. "When do Spouses Support a Career?  A Human Capital Analysis of Israeli Managers and their Spouses," Journal of Socio-Economics, 23(1): 189-207, 1994.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Cross-Productivity Effects of Education and Origin on Earnings--Do They Really Reflect Productivity?" in J. Gerber, R. Frantz, and H. Singh (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Vol. II.  Greenwich:  JAI Press, 1991.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Earnings and Ethnic Origin:  The Effect of Wife's Ethnic Origin on Husband's Earnings,",Studies in Israel's Economy 1988 , pp. 39-51, The Israeli Economic Association, Jerusalem, 1989 (in Hebrew).

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "An Economist's Approach to Women's Private and Public Roles," in M. Ben-Peretz and D. Kalekin-Fishman (eds.), Proceedings of an International Conference on Private Woman-Public Work.  Haifa:  Haifa University, 1989.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice," Journal of Political Economy, 96:1294-1302, December 1988.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Virtue, Work and Marriage" in S. Maital (ed.), Applied Behavioral Economics.  New York:  Wheatsheaf, 1988.

Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Female Work and Leadership in the Kibbutz:  Some Empirical Tests" in L. Shamgar-Handelman and R. Palomba (eds.), Alternative patterns of Family Life in Modern Societies.  Rome:  IRP, 1987.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Marriage and Productivity--An Interdisciplinary Analysis" in B. Gilad and S. Kaish (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics.  Greenwich:  JAI Press, 1986.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Fertility:  Two Lessons from Polygyny," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 7:415-424, 1986.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Religiosity," Journal of Behavioral Economics, Spring/Summer 1986.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Economics, Judaism, and Marriage," Dinei Israel, A Journal of Science and Jewish Law, 1986 (in Hebrew)

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Marriage Squeezes, Cohabitation, and the Feminist Revolution” in Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution ed. by Kingsley Davis in association with Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman, New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage," Economic Journal, 94(4): 863-882, 1984.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Market Approach to Intermarriage," Papers in Jewish Demography, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Jerusalem, 1983.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "On the Role and Determinants of Bride Price:  Comment," Current Anthropology, 24(2): 210, 1983.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Marriage Formality: The Case of Guatemala," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 30(4): 813-830, 1982.

David M. Heer and Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "The Impact of the Female Marriage Squeeze and the Contraceptive Revolution on Sex Roles and the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, 1960 to 1975," Journal of Marriage and the Family, 43(1): 49-65, 1981.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Gary Becker's Theory of the Family--Some Interdisciplinary Considerations," Sociology and Social Research, 66(1): 1-11, 1981.

Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "The Economics of Polygamy," in J. DaVanzo and J. Simon (eds.), Research in Population Economics, Vol. II.  Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980.

Amyra Grossbard. "On the Production Mentality and Communal Formation:  Comment," Current Anthropology, June 1980.

Amyra Grossbard. "Towards a Marriage Between Economics and Anthropology and A General Theory of Marriage," Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Review, 68(2):33-37, 1978.

Amyra Grossbard. "Development and Human Economics:  Comment," Current Anthropology, March 1978.

Amyra Grossbard. "Reply to Clignet-Sween and Cohen," Current Anthropology, March 1977.

Amyra Grossbard. "An Economic Analysis of Polygamy: The Case of Maiduguri," Current Anthropology, 17 (4): 701-707, 1976.

 

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