Research Topics

My Publications are relevant to the following 12 areas of economics (see lists of my publications on these topics below)   

• Overview of my research achievements
  
  
• Singling out a few topics
  
  
• List of publications in 12 areas
  

Overview of my research achievements

The principal overarching theme of my research is the study of marriage markets and their possible impact on a wide range of outcomes at both the microeconomic and the macroeconomic level.

I view marriage and cohabitation as institutions that help organize the allocation of time to household production, including the “production” of children and child outcomes. Consequently, one of the areas in which I am active as a researcher is the study of A/ household production, including time in household production.

Time spent in household production is not spent in the labor force. This has led to one of my principal themes of research within the area of labor economics: labor supply. In addition I have also published on the subject of wage determination, and how labor productivity could possibly be a function of help from other household members. I am therefore also engaged in B/ labor economics (Labor Supply and Wage Determination).

Inspired by my principal mentor, Gary Becker, I have theorized on the impact of sex ratios (the ratios of men to women) on marriage markets. Sex ratios are often measured at the macro level. I have explored their possible impact on production, consumption and savings at the state or national level, a major theme of my contributions to C/ Macro-Economics (Production, Consumption, Savings, Household).

The bulk of my work can be categorized as demographic economics, to the extent that it analyzes these three outcomes: marriage, cohabitation and fertility (D/ Demographic Economics (Marriage, Cohabitation, Fertility). I have also studied sexual behavior and how it possibly explains marital and non-marital fertility, which is now considered part of E/ Health Economics and Economics of Risky Behavior (Obesity, Teen Sex, Long-Term Care). Another risky behavior is over-eating and I recently got involved in research on obesity and its implications for work in the labor market. Another recent direction that I have taken as a researcher is entry into the study of long term care and how marital institutions possibly help explain the provision of such care by relatives.

Production by households is also related to consumption of commercial goods: whatever is not produced at home may be purchased commercially. Marriage market analysis is therefore also relevant to F/ Consumer Economics, another theme of my research. Ultimately, what is the goal of household production and consumption? Happiness and other good feelings, an outcome I have also studied (G/ Economics of Happiness).  I have also written a bit on policy issues and governance (H/ Public Policy and Governance) and I/ Religious behavior.

Studying marriage implies studying marriage institutions and the laws that influence these institutions. This has led me to also engage in research about J/ Law and Economics (Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce).  Since so much of the research on marriage has been produced within other disciplines such as sociology and anthropology, I have also written on K/ inter-disciplinary comparisons. Finally, a few of my recent publications deal with the recent L/ History of Economic Thought,in part thanks to my exposure to some of the principal innovators in the field of household economics: Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer.

In conclusion, my publications are relevant to the following 12 areas of economics:

1. Household Production, including Time in Household Production
2. Labor Economics (Labor Supply and Wage Determination)
3. Macro-Economics (Production, Consumption, Savings, Household)
4. Demographic Economics (Marriage, Cohabitation, Fertility)
5. Health Economics and Economics of Risky Behavior (Obesity, Teen Sex, Long-Term Care)
6. Consumer Economics
7. Economics of Happiness
8. Public Policy and Governance
9. Economics of Religion
10. Law and Economics (Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce)
11. Interdisciplinary Comparisons
12. History of Economic Thought

A list of my publications classified according to these categories can be found below.

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Singling out two themes of my research:

• Sex ratios
• Household Production and What You Get For Doing It

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List of publications in 12 areas

I am hereby listing my recent unpublished papers and all my publications according to these 12 areas of research:

A. Household Production, including Time in Household Production

• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?  IZA World of Labor, May 2016. DOI:10.15185/izawol.256.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Who decides how much loving care I give you? 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. Forthcoming.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "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.
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" in Mathematical Population Studies 22(2): 80-100, April 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. "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).
• Shoshana Grossbard, Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina. "Racial Intermarriage and Household Production", Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(4):295-347, 2014.
• 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.
• "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.
• 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.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage." Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6): 609-645, 2003.
• (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. Table of Contents Includes 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). Book Reviews
• 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.
• 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, 1990.
• 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
• 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. "Towards a Marriage Between Economics and Anthropology and a General Theory of Marriage," Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Review, 68(2):33-37, May 1978.
• Amyra Grossbard. "An Economic Analysis of Polygamy: The Case of Maiduguri," Current Anthropology, 17 (4): 701-707, December 1976.

B. Labor Economics (Labor Supply and Wage Determination)

• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015.
• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
•  (book edited w Kingsley Davis) Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985. Includes my chapter: "Marriage Squeezes, Cohabitation, and the Feminist Revolution."
•  “Marriage and Marriage Markets” Prepared for inclusion 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. Forthcoming, 2018.) Last prepublication version "Marriage and Marriage Markets," January 2017.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay,“Body-weight and women's hours of work: More evidence that marriage markets matter” IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775, May 2017.
• Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?  IZA World of Labor, May 2016. DOI:10.15185/izawol.256.
• 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. "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)
• Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. "Cohort-level sex ratio effects on 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. Table of Contents Includes 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). Book Reviews
• 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 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 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.
• 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. "Do Not Sell Marriage Short," Feminist Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1: 207-2014, 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.
• 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, Spring 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, 1990.
• 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 and Shoshana Neuman. "Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice," Journal of Political Economy, 96:1294-1302, December 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. "A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage," Economic Journal, 94(4): 863-882, December 1984. Explanatory notes

C. Macro-Economics (Production, Consumption, Savings, Sex Ratios)

• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 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, Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina. "Racial Intermarriage and Household Production", Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(4):295-347, 2014.
• 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.
• "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.
• 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. 
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?" European Journal of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. "Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women’s labor force participation," Review of Economics of the Household 5:249-278, 2007. 
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage." Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6): 609-645, 2003.
• (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. Table of Contents Includes 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). Book Reviews
• 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").
• 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

D. Demographic Economics (Marriage, Cohabitation, Fertility)

• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015.
• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• (book edited w Kingsley Davis) Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985. Includes my chapter: "Marriage Squeezes, Cohabitation, and the Feminist Revolution."
•  “Marriage and Marriage Markets” Prepared for inclusion 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. Forthcoming, 2018.) Last prepublication version "Marriage and Marriage Markets," January 2017.
• “Modeling Eldercare by Children and Children-in-law: The Role of Marriage Institutions” Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working Paper 750, June 2017 https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/324651/adbi-wp750.pdf
• Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay,“Body-weight and women's hours of work: More evidence that marriage markets matter” IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775, May 2017.
• Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem, R. Richard Geddes and Shoshana Amyra Grossbard, "Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States", CESifo Working Paper No. 6471, May 2017. 
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Teen Births" J of Family and Economic Issues, March 2017, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 129–145
• Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?  IZA World of Labor, May 2016. DOI:10.15185/izawol.256.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Who decides how much loving care I give you? 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. Forthcoming.
• 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, 2016.
• (Edited Book) Shoshana Grossbard, The Economics of Marriage, a volume in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN: 978 1 78471 024 8, 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "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.
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" in Mathematical Population Studies 22(2): 80-100, April 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "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).
• 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 Couple Formation", Special issue in honor of Gary Becker, IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3:16, 2014. 
• Shoshana Grossbard, Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina. "Racial Intermarriage and Household Production", Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(4):295-347, 2014.
• Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyhay. "Spousal Love and Children: an Economic Analysis." Review of Economics of the Household, 11(3):447-467, September 2013.
• "Will Women Save more than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage" (with Alfredo M. Pereira) CESifo Working Paper No. 3146, August 2010.
• 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. 
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?" European Journal of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008.
• 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.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "A Theory of Women's Welfare Dependency, Marriage, and Labor Supply," Labour 19:211-241, 2005.
• Ronald Mincy, Shoshana Grossbard, and Chien-Chung Huang, May 2005."An Economic Analysis of Co-Parenting Choices: Single Parent, Visiting Father, Cohabitation, Marriage" Ms, Columbia University 
• (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. Table of Contents Includes 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). Book Reviews
• 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 "The Economics and Sociology of Marriage: Historical Trends and Theories of In-Marriage Household Labor" : in S. Grossbard-Shechtman and C. Clague (eds.) On the Expansion of Economics, Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman "A Demographer on the Cusp Between Economics and Sociology: an Interview with David Heer" 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 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 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.
• 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," 
• 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, 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, Spring 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, 1990.
• 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 and Shoshana Neuman. "Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice," Journal of Political Economy, 96:1294-1302, December 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. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Fertility:  Two Lessons from Polygyny," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 7:415-424, December 1986.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Religiosity," Journal of Behavioral Economics, Spring/Summer 1986.
• 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
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Market Approach to Intermarriage," Papers in Jewish Demography, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Jerusalem, 1983.
• 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. "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. "Towards a Marriage Between Economics and Anthropology and a General Theory of Marriage," Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Review, 68(2):33-37, May 1978.
• Amyra Grossbard. "An Economic Analysis of Polygamy: The Case of Maiduguri," Current Anthropology, 17 (4): 701-707, December 1976.

E. Health Economics and Economics of Risky Behavior (Obesity, Teen Sex, Long-Term Care)

• “Modeling Eldercare by Children and Children-in-law: The Role of Marriage Institutions” Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working Paper 750, June 2017 https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/324651/adbi-wp750.pdf
• Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay,“Body-weight and women's hours of work: More evidence that marriage markets matter” IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775, May 2017.
• Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem, R. Richard Geddes and Shoshana Amyra Grossbard, "Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States", CESifo Working Paper No. 6471, May 2017. 
• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Teen Births" J of Family and Economic Issues, March 2017, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 129–145.
• 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.
• 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. 
• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?" European Journal of Political Economy 24(1):25-40, 2008.
• Ronald Mincy, Shoshana Grossbard, and Chien-Chung Huang, May 2005."An Economic Analysis of Co-Parenting Choices: Single Parent, Visiting Father, Cohabitation, Marriage" Ms, Columbia University 

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

F. Consumer Economics

• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" in Mathematical Population Studies 22(2): 80-100, April 2015.
• "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.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage." Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6): 609-645, 2003.

G. Economics of Happiness

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

H. Public Policy and Governance

• Shoshana Grossbard. "A Theory of Women's Welfare Dependency, Marriage, and Labor Supply," Labour 19:211-241, 2005.
• Ronald Mincy, Shoshana Grossbard, and Chien-Chung Huang, May 2005."An Economic Analysis of Co-Parenting Choices: Single Parent, Visiting Father, Cohabitation, Marriage" Ms, Columbia University 
• (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. Table of Contents Includes 2 chapters I wrote: Introduction and Marriage and Work for Pay (with S. Neuman). Book Reviews
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "Do Not Sell Marriage Short," Feminist Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1: 207-2014, 1995.
• 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.
• (book edited w Kingsley Davis) Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985. Includes my chapter: "Marriage Squeezes, Cohabitation, and the Feminist Revolution."
• 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. "A Theory of Marriage Formality: The Case of Guatemala," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 30(4): 813-830, 1982.

I. Economics of Religion

• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Religiosity," Journal of Behavioral Economics, Spring/Summer 1986.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Market Approach to Intermarriage," Papers in Jewish Demography, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Jerusalem, 1983.

J. Law and Economics (Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce)

• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Teen Births" J of Family and Economic Issues, March 2017, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 129–145.
• Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?  IZA World of Labor, May 2016. DOI:10.15185/izawol.256.
• 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, 2016.
• 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. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007.
• 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. 

K. Inter-Disciplinary

• Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon. "Common Law Marriage and Teen Births" J of Family and Economic Issues, March 2017, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 129–145.
• 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, 2016.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Repack the Household: A Comment on Robert Ellickson's Unpacking the Household," in Yale Law Journal Pocket Edition, April, 2007.
• 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. "Irma Adelman, A Pioneer in the Expansion of Economics: An Interview," Feminist Economics, 8(1): 101-116, 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 and Christopher Clague, On the Expansion of Economics. Foreword by Jack Hirshleifer. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001. Includes our introduction and our conclusion.
• 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 "A Demographer on the Cusp Between Economics and Sociology: an Interview with David Heer" in S. Grossbard-Shechtmand and C. Clague (eds.) On the Expansion of Economics, Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001
• Shoshana Grosbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague. "The Expansion and Reorientation of Economics." Introduction to On the Expansion of Economics. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague. "What is Economics?" , Journal of Socio-Economics, 30: 1-6, 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, January 2001.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, Evelyn Lehrer and J.William Leasure. "Comment on a Theory of the Value of Children," Demography, Vol. 33, 1996.
• 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, Spring 1994.
• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. (Chapters 1 and 2)
• 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 and Shoshana Neuman. "Economic Behavior, Marriage and Religiosity," Journal of Behavioral Economics, Spring/Summer 1986.
• (book edited w Kingsley Davis) Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution. New York: Russell Sage Publications, 1985. Includes my chapter: "Marriage Squeezes, Cohabitation, and the Feminist Revolution."
• 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.
• 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, October 1981. 
• 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, May 1978. 
• Amyra Grossbard. "An Economic Analysis of Polygamy: The Case of Maiduguri," Current Anthropology, 17 (4): 701-707, December 1976.

L. History of Economic Thought

• (edited book) Shoshana Grossbard, Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics. New York: Springer, 2006. Includes chapters by Jacob Mincer, Gary Becker and James J Heckman.
• Should Common-Law-Marriage be abolished in the USA?  IZA World of Labor, May 2016. DOI:10.15185/izawol.256.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "Who decides how much loving care I give you? 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. Forthcoming.
• Shoshana Grossbard. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. Why Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption and Savings. Springer. 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard. Household Economics, prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2d edition, edited by James Wright, Elsevier, forthcoming.
• 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, Introduction to The Economics of Marriage. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming September 2015.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "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.
• Shoshana Grossbard. 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.
• Shoshana Grossbard. "How 'Chicagoan' are Gary Becker's Economic Models of Marriage?"J of History of Economic Thought, 32(3):377-395, September 2010. [copyright held by the History of Economics Society]
• Shoshana Grossbard. "The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago" chapter in Jacob Mincer, A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics, Edited by S. Grossbard. New York: Springer, 2006.
• 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, November 2001.
• 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, Evelyn Lehrer and J.William Leasure. "Comment on a Theory of the Value of Children," Demography, Vol. 33, 1996.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Gary Becker's Theory of the Family--Some Interdisciplinary Considerations," Sociology and Social Research, 66(1): 1-11, October 1981. 

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