Shelly Lundberg
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonard Broom Professor of Demography
Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and currently serves as First Vice-President of SOLE and on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America. She received her Ph.D in Economics from Northwestern University in 1981 and her B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1975. From 2006 to 2010, Lundberg was Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics, a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review and Review of Economics of the Household, and deputy editor of Demography. Her research is focused in labor economics and the economics of the family, and includes both theoretical modeling (of discrimination and inequality and of family decision-making) and empirical analysis (of marriage and fertility, labor supply, wage determination, and intra-household allocation of resources). Her current research examines the impact of personality on marriage, divorce and intergenerational relations and the implications of these effects for the economic modeling of demographic behavior. Recent projects have studied decisionmaking by children, the effect of child gender on parental behavior, the location decisions of married couples, and equilibrium in marriage markets.
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Email: lundberg@econ.ucsb.edu