New Economics of the Family
February 27-28, 2009
Organizers
- James Heckman, University of Chicago
- Christopher Flinn, New York University
- Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University
In a two-day conference that attracted scholars from London, Paris, Madrid, and Tel Aviv, researchers presented models of economic decision making about marriage and within the family to better understand the underpinnings of educational choice, labor supply, income inequality, and economic growth. For instance, how are one's educational choices influenced by concerns about finding a spouse who is a good match? How does marriage among people with similar attributes contribute to income inequality across households? What factors influence how resources and responsibilities are shared within a marriage? Novel methods were proposed and implemented in addressing these and other questions. Read more details...
Program
An Assignment Model with Divorce & Remarriage
- Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University), Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado) & Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University)
Assortative Matching on the Marriage Market: A Structural Investigation
- Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University), Bernard Salanié (Columbia University) & Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University)
Endogenous Household Interaction
- Daniela Del Boca (University of Turin) & Christopher Flinn (New York University)
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
- Flávio Cunha (University of Pennsylvania), James Heckman (University of Chicago) & Susanne M. Schennach (University of Chicago)
- Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania), Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania) & Nezih Guner (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
- Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University), Mural Ivigun (University of Colorado) & Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University)
Marriage Market Equilibrium and Bargaining in Marriage
- Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington) & Robert Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis)
Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics
- Alfred Galichon (École Polytechnique) & Bernard Salanié (Columbia University)
Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching
- Alyosius Siow (University of Toronto)