FAMILY MACROECONOMICS

Research that incorporates elements from family economics into a macro framework has become quite popular over the last decade. Fertility, marriage, and home production decisions are more and more regarded as having potentially big effects on the aggregate economy.

Download the reading list (pdf) .

Summary of data sources (pdf) .

Check out economists working on family related issues

Stefania Albanesi , Columbia University

Siwan Anderson , University of British Columbia

Raquel Bernal , Northwestern University

Maristella Botticini , Boston University

Mariacristina De Nardi , University of Minnesota

Matthias Doepke , UCLA

Lena Edlund , Columbia University

Raquel Fernandez , New York University

Alessandra Fogli , Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Jeremy Greenwood , University of Rochester

Nezih Guner , Penn State University

Larry E. Jones , University of Minnesota

Claudia Olivetti , Boston University

Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aloysius Siow , University of Toronto


If you want to be included in this list, please email me: tertilt at stanford.edu