Webpage of Shoshana Grossbard, Professor of Economics at San Diego State University


Office phone: (619) 594-5468
Fax: (619) 594-5062
Email: shosh@mail.sdsu.edu

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**Ranked in top 10% of the economics profession according to REPEC in terms of nb of journal pages, nb of distinct worksand nb of abstract views weighted by nb of authors.**

RECOGNIZED BY

• Huffington Post included me among the 26 economists worth following on twitter! so honored! huff.to/11rpx61

• Gary Becker (Nobel prize 1992), her principal mentor: "You have done and are still doing important work on economic aspects of marriage and the family." Letter from Gary Becker, 1993; The myth [that my work on the family assumes an all-encompassing altruism] has been addressed by the economist Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and others. A major part of my book on…"

• Jacob Mincer (IZA prize 2002), one of her mentors: “To Shoshana, with best wishes for continuing the tradition.” 1993

• M. Killingsworth and her mentor Jim Heckman (Nobel Prize 2000): "Grossbard-Shechtman (1984) adopts an individual utility function whose arguments include household time supplied by the other persons and a budget constraint …"

More about Prof Grossbard’s work

VIDEOTAPED APPEARANCES

Paris conference on Beckerian Economics of the Family, Oct. 2011

Prof Grossbard testifies as an expert witness at Canada’s constitutional reference case, to determine the validity of Canada's polygamy law.
Affidavit (.pdf) | Written Media Coverage (.pdf) | Interview on French Canadian radio (.mp3)

Videotaped appearances, Madrid, Spain, May 2010 | Munich Lectures on the Economics of Marriage

Headlines

Poverty Rate Steady, Census Data Says, UT San Diego, September 13, 2012

Lower fertility and recession, KUSI News, July 2012

Is California Greece?, Interviewed on California's budget problems, CNN Radio News, August 23, 2012

People Expect Too much from government. Heraldo de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain, Februray 3, 2012 (in Spanish)

Polygamy and religious freedom- Zenit, February 6, 2011

The Economics of Big Love- New York Times, January 24, 2011

Polygamy leaves women worse off, court told- The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2012

Taxing sex to save California from its budget deficit - San Diego News Network, June 8, 2009

Interviewed in Simon W. Bowmaker, ed. The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds. Williston, VT: Edward Elgar, 2010. 

Interviewed for Economy affects divorce rates
TV News 6, San Diego, January 12, 2009 

Interviewed for Poor economy keeping some from expanding family
on Channel 10 news, San Diego, December 17, 2008

FreakonomicsFrom the Freakonomics blog: on the leisure/work debate, June 11, 2007

Labour force participation of women and « marriage market » in the USA (English)
Travail des femmes et « marché du mariage » aux USA (Français)
Essais et Debats, La Vie des Idees Website
, March 20, 2009

The San Diego Union Tribune
Why Has Women's Relative Labor Force Participation been Dropping?
March 23, 2006

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