16.06.2014 a 17.06.2014

Short Course

ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD

Professor: Shoshana Amyra Grossbard

Editor, Review of Economics of the Household

Prof. of Economics at San Diego State U and a fellow at IZA and CESifo and author of the widely cited "On the Economics of Marriage: a Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce." Her new book on the interaction of marriage and labor markets will be published by Springer.

She studied with Becker, Mincer, Jim Heckman, Ed Lazear, and T.W. Schultz.

Duration: 5 hours (2.5 hours +2.5 hours)

Date: 16 ^th and 17 ^th June (morning) 2014

Hours: 10.00 am to 12.30 pm
Room: tba

Venue: ISEG – Lisboa School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa

TUITON FEES:

Regular  : €100 (Fee covers documentation) 

PhD students  :  €80 (Fee covers documentation) 

Maximum Class Size: 25
All students receive a Certificate of Attendance

Registration: Registration Form docx ( here) or pdf ( here)

Course Purpose:

• Household economics is a branch of economics that studies outcomes of
  household decision-making and the processes by which households make
  decisions.
• Household outcomes that have been analyzed with economic
  analysis include  consumption, labor supply and other uses of time,
  household formation (marriage and cohabitation) and dissolution, demand for
  health and other forms of human capital, fertility and investment in
  children's human capital, demand for environmental and other public goods,
  migration, and demand for religiosity.
• After an introduction and presentation of the conceptual framework based on some of Gary Becker's theories of the family the course will address the following outcomes:
  • Marriage,
  • Labor supply,
  • Household production, and
  • Household finance.
• An overview of the policies and performance of the Review of Economics of
  the Household, the journal edited by Prof. Grossbard, will also be included in the course.

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or Elsa Fontainha ( elmano@iseg.ulisboa.pt)

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