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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

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

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

Possible exchanges of caring work for money in extended families

Models also apply to gays and lesbians

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

Do women get paid for sexual fidelity?

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

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

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?

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

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