The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy
Edited by Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman
Author Information
Susan L. Averett is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. She has published widely on topics at the intersection of health and demographic/labor economics. With co-author Saul D. Hoffman, she is the author of Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay (3rd edition, 2016), an economics textbook on women's family and work issues, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She served on the board of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Research in Bonn, Germany.
Laura M. Argys is Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activities at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is well known for her research on the impact of health, education, and welfare policies on the economic well-being of families and children. Her work has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the American Education Finance Association, and she is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Research in Bonn, Germany.
Saul D. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Delaware and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Denver. He has published widely in topics in labor economics and economic demography. He is the author of By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing and co-editor of Kids Having Kids (2nd Edition), to which he also contributed several chapters. With co-author Susan Averett, he is the author of Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay (3rd edition, 2016), an economics textbook on women's family and work issues, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Contributors:
Alícia Adserà, Princeton University
Francisca M. Antman, University of Colorado, Boulder
S Anukriti, Boston College
Laura M. Argys, University of Colorado, Denver, and IZA
Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College and IZA
Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan
Francine D. Blau, Cornell University
Kasey S. Buckles, University of Notre Dame
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, University of Sydney
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University
Rachel Connelly, Bowdoin College
Patricia Cortes, Boston University
Shatanjaya Dasgupta, Beloit College
Catherine C. Eckel, Texas A&M University
Ana Ferrer, University of Waterloo
Jason M. Fletcher, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Donna Ginther, University of Kansas
Paola Giuliano , University of California, Los Angeles
Shoshana Grossbard, San Diego State University and IZA
Melanie Guldi, University of Central Florida
Rachel Heath, University of Washington
Saul D. Hoffman, University of Delaware and University of Colorado, Denver
Joyce P. Jacobsen, Wesleyan University
Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University
Guy Johnson, RMIT University
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Takao Kato, Colgate University
Jean Kimmel, Western Michigan University
Naomi Kodama, Hitotsubashi University
Astrid Kunze, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Evelyn L. Lehrer, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jason M. Lindo, Texas A&M University
Leonard M. Lopoo, Syracuse University
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado, Denver, and IZA
Terra McKinnish, University of Colorado, Boulder, and IZA
Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia
Michael Q. Moody, Miami University
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Jessica Polos, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Claus C. Pörtner, Seattle University
Kerri M. Raissian, University of Connecticut
David C. Ribar, University of Melbourne
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University
Elaina Rose, University of Washington
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University
Lucie Schmidt, Williams College
Barbara Schone, Georgetown University
Olga Shurchkov, Wellesley College
Yeon Jeong Son, University of Illinois, Chicago
Anne E. Winkler, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Anna Zhu, University of Melbourne