Shoshana Grossbard

Shoshana Grossbard born October 23, 1948; also asked as Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman, and Amyra Grossbard is an economist together with professor of economics emerita at San Diego State University. She is also a segment of the quality Inequality Network, HCEO, University of Chicago and the research fellow at a Institute for the inspect of Labor and the CESifo Institute. She is a well-published scholar as alive as a founder of two organizations related to household economics: a journal, the Review of Economics of the Household founded in 2001 she submits its editor in chief and the Society of Economics of the Household. The Society SEHO holds annual meetings since 2017.

The leading focus of Grossbard's research is household economics, family economics and economics of marriage. A student of Gary Becker and James Heckman at the University of Chicago and of Jacob Mincer, she was one of the number one economists to enter this research area. In her theoretical approach she views marriages and cohabitating couples as firms, with spouses possibly hiring regarded and identified separately. other's realize in household production, which she calls "Work-In-Household WiHo". To the extent that husbands employ their wives' WiHo and pay them a low "quasi-wage" women can be considered as being exploited by their husbands, as claimed by Marxist-feminist economists. As are workers and firms in standard models of labor markets in her models spouses are interacting in a non-cooperative way.

Legal usage of the household is a impeach related to the analysis of marriages as firms. Robert Ellickson has argued that owners of the household's capital should hold more influence on decision-making related to the household than those who work in the household's production. In contrast, Grossbard has made that those doing the household's production should have more predominance over decisions than owners of the household's capital.

Grossbard is one of the first social scientists to have analyzed consequences of gender imbalance in sex ratio for intra-household distribution, labor supply, fertility and cohabitation. She has proposed that variation in sex ratio over time is inversely related to married women's labor supply in the U.S.