Papers & Publications (as of December 2012)

New: Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" in Mathematical Population Studies (forthcoming).

Book (sole-authored):

• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
  
• Shoshana Grossbard. On the Economics of Marriage, Second edition. in preparation.

Publications By Topic:

• Conceptual Models of the Household
• Marriage, Cohabitation, Children, Labor Supply & Other Household Decisions
• New Home Economics and Related Topics
• Law and Economics of Households
• Economics and Other Disciplines

Publications with Conceptual Models of the Household

• (Book) Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. (Chapters 3 and 4)
• 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, 2012.
• "Racial Discrimination and Household Chores" (with Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina), IZA Discussion Paper No. 5345, Nov. 2010.
• "Will Women Save more than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage" (with Alfredo M. Pereira) CESifo Working Paper No. 3146, August 2010.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. "A Model of Labour Supply, Household Production, and Marriage" in Advances in Household Economics, Consumer Behaviour and Economic Policy, edited by Tran Van Hoa. London: Ashgate Publishing, (2005) Revised Version 2007
• Shoshana Grossbard. "A Theory of Women's Welfare Dependency, Marriage, and Labor Supply," Labour 19:211-241, 2005.
• 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-Shechtman. "A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work in Marriage." Journal of Socio-Economics, 31(6): 609-645, 2003.
• 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. "An Economist's Approach to Women's Private and Public Roles," in M. Ben-Peretz and D. Kalekin-Fishman (eds.), Proceedings of an International Conference on Private Woman-Public Work.  Haifa:  Haifa University, 1989.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Virtue, Work and Marriage" in S. Maital (ed.), Applied Behavioral Economics.  New York:  Wheatsheaf, 1988.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "Marriage and Productivity--An Interdisciplinary Analysis" in B. Gilad and S. Kaish (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics.  Greenwich:  JAI Press, 1986.
• 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.
• Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman. "On the Role and Determinants of Bride Price:  Comment," Current Anthropology, 24(2): 210, March 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. "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.

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Publications on Marriage, Cohabitation, Children, Labor Supply & Other Household Decisions

• Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard. "Time cost of children as parents' foregone leisure" in Mathematical Population Studies (forthcoming).
• "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.
• "Racial Discrimination and Household Chores" (with Jose Ignacio Gimenez and Jose Alberto Molina), IZA Discussion Paper No. 5345, Nov. 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.
• 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.
• 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 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).
• 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.[reprinted in Jon Anson and Jona Schellekens (eds.), Israel's Destiny: Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society, Schnitzer Studies in Israeli Society, Volume 12. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2006]
• 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, 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.
• (sole-authored book) On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
• 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.
• (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.
• 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.

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Publications on the New Home Economics and Related Topics

• Shoshana Grossbard (ed.), Jacob Mincer, A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics. New York: Springer, 2006. Includes chapters by Jacob Mincer, Gary Becker, James J Heckman, and the editor.
• 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. “Independent individual decision-makers in household models and the New Home Economics” in Household Economic Behaviors edited by J. Alberto Molina. New York: Springer, 2012.
• 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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Publications in Law and Economics of 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. "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 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. "Economics, Judaism, and Marriage," Dinei Israel, A Journal of Science and Jewish Law, 1986 (in Hebrew) 

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Publications on Economics and Other Disciplines

• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague, On the Expansion of Economics. Foreword by Jack Hirshleifer. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 2001. Table of Contents Includes 4 chapters I wrote: Introduction (with C. Clague), The Economics and Sociology of Marriage, A Demographer on the Cusp Between Economics and Sociology: David Heer, and a Conclusion.
• 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. "What is Economics?" , Journal of Socio-Economics, 30: 1-6, 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 "A Demographer at the Cusp between Economics and Sociology: An Interview with David Heer" in S.Grossbard-Shechtman and C. Clague (eds.) On the Expansion of Economics. Armonk, N.J.: M.E. Sharpe. 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.
• Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.(Chapters 1 and 2)
• 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. 

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