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Handbook of the Economics of the Family

  • 1st Edition - March 23, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shelly Lundberg, Alessandra Voena
  • Language: English

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading schola… Read more

Description

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent developments in each area. Chapters cover Culture and the family; Mating markets; Household decisions and intra-household distributions; The economics of fertility: a new era; Families, labor markets, and policy; Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility; The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists; An institutional perspective on the economics of the family.

Key features

  • An economics approach to changing family arrangements
  • Understanding of inequality and intergenerational mobility
  • Evolution of gender roles within families and across societies

Readership

Economists; demographers; social scientists

Table of contents

1. Culture and the family
Natalie Bau and Raquel Fernández

2. Mating markets
Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié

3. Household decisions and intra-household distributions
Ingvild Almås, Orazio Attanasio, and Pedro Carneiro

4. The economics of fertility: a new era
Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann, and Michèle Tertilt

5. Families, labor markets, and policy
Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, and Barbara Petrongolo

6. Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility
Magne Mogstad and Gaute Torsvik

7. The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Ricardo Marto

8. An institutional perspective on the economics of the family
Siwan Anderson and Chris Bidner

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Shelly Lundberg

Shelly Lundberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics and the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists, a past President of the European Society of Population Economics and a Research Fellow at IZA. In 2020, Lundberg was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. She served as Chair of the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession from 2016 to 2018 and served as AEA Vice-President in 2021. Lundberg’s research is focused in labor economics, demography economics, and the economics of the family, including issues such as discrimination, inequality, family decision-making and the intra-household allocation of resources. Projects in recent years include studies of decision-making by children, the effects of child gender on parental behavior, the location decisions of married couples, the impact of government-provided care for the elderly on the labor supply of adult children, the economic returns to psychosocial traits, and the gender gap in educational attainment. Recently, she has written about the barriers to increasing women’s participation in the economics profession and on gender economics more broadly. Lundberg received her Bachelor’s degree at the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D in Economics from Northwestern University in 1981.
Affiliations and expertise
University of California, CA, USA

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Alessandra Voena

Alessandra Voena is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. She a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has previously taught at the University of Chicago, and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Voena’s work focuses primarily on the economics of the family in developed and developing countries. In particular, her research studies how the marriage market and intra-household decision making shape human capital investments and economic outcomes in the United States, in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in India. Voena holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Università degli Studi di Torino in Italy.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States

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