Research Topics> Household Production and what you get for doing it

The following publications deal with household production and what you get for doing it. You can also get a sense of my ideas by listening to this podcast: http://www.economicrockstar.com/shoshanagrossbard/ and watching this slide show http://www.slideshare.net/shoshanagrossbard/household-economics-keynote-sep-4-2015-edited-sept-10

Models of household production in marriage and other couples, with those doing the caring work possibly getting paid for it

• Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015. (Chapters 2 and 3)
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Marriage Market Models" in M. Tommasi and K. Ierulli (eds.), The New Economics of Human Behavior.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995

Models of household production with women doing the caring work possibly getting paid for it (informal, brief, early versions)

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

Empirical study of household production based on a model in which spouses doing the caring work possibly get paid for it

• Shoshana Grossbard, Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina. "Racial Intermarriage and Household Production", Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(4):295-347, 2014. [earlier working paper at http://ftp.iza.org/dp5345.pdf] Also chapter 9 in The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use", Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 41 on Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, pp. 143-175, 2015.

Possible exchanges of caring work for money in extended families

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

Models also apply to gays and lesbians

• Shoshana Grossbard and Lisa Jepsen. "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.

Studies of labor supply based on models in which husbands possibly pay wives for their work in household production.

• Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015. (Chapters 4 to 8)
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon, “Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use”, Research in Labor Economics, 2015.
• Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Shoshana Grossbard. "Marriage Markets and Women's Labor Force Participation," Review of Economics of the Household 5:249-278, 2007. 
• Shoshana Grossbard. "A Theory of Women's Welfare Dependency, Marriage, and Labor Supply," Labour 19:211-241, 2005.
•  (edited book) Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies Foreword by Jacob Mincer. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2003. See 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). 
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Clive W. Granger. "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”).
• 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 On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage," Economic Journal, 94(4): 863-882, December 1984. Explanatory notes
• 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. 

Do women get paid for sexual fidelity?

• David Bishai and 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. 

Studies of marriage and couple formation based on models in which husbands possibly pay wives for their work in household production.

• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation", Special issue in honor of Gary Becker, IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3:16, 2014. 
• 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. 
• "An Economic Analysis of Co-Parenting Choices: Single Parent, Visiting Father, Cohabitation, Marriage" (with Ronald Mincy and Chien-Chung Huang), Ms, Columbia University, May 2005.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Market Approach to Intermarriage," Papers in Jewish Demography, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Jerusalem, 1983.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Marriage Formality: The Case of Guatemala," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 30(4): 813-830, 1982.
• 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. "An Economic Analysis of Polygamy: The Case of Maiduguri," Current Anthropology, 17 (4): 701-707, December 1976.

Studies of consumption and savings based on models in which husbands possibly pay wives for their work in household production.

• Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015. Chapters 10 and 11
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage." Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6): 609-645, 2003.
• "Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples" (with Jens Bonke and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), IZA Discussion Paper No. 5418, January 2011.
• "Will Women Save more than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage" (with Alfredo M. Pereira) CESifo Working Paper No. 3146, August 2010.

Fertility: married, outside marriage, and out-of-couple. Is it related to caring work and to how well caring workers get paid by their partners?

• 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. 
• Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyhay. "Spousal Love and Children: an Economic Analysis." Review of Economics of the Household, 11(3):447-467, September 2013.
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?" European Journal of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008.

Law and Economics applications of my models of exchanges of caring work for money inside households

• Shoshana Grossbard. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007. Shoshana Grossbard.
• "Polygamy and the Regulation of Marriage Markets" in The Polygamy Question, edited by Janet Bennion and Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado, pending May 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage—a Beckerian Approach", J of Demographic Economics, vol 81 (1), pp13-25, 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use", Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 41 on Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, pp. 143-175, 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation", Special issue in honor of Gary Becker, IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3:16, 2014. 
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?" European J of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "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, (2002) Revised Version 2006.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman "The Economics and Sociology of Marriage: Historical Trends and Theories of In-Marriage Household Labor": in S. Grossbard-Shechtmand and C. Clague (eds.) On the Expansion of Economics, Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 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 Market Models" in M. Tommasi and K. Ierulli (eds.), The New Economics of Human Behavior.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995. 
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Economics, Judaism, and Marriage," Dinei Israel, A Journal of Science and Jewish Law, 1986 (in Hebrew).
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Theory of Marriage Formality: The Case of Guatemala," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 30(4): 813-830, 1982.