Are These Family Laws Good for Women? An Economist’s Perspective
Professor Shoshana Grossbard, S an Diego State University Many laws,
including laws related to the family, have unintended consequences. In
this seminar, Shoshana Grossbard , an economist and Professor of
Economics Emerita at San Diego State University, will examine four
areas of law and their impact on women. The focus will be four laws
that can be called family laws: laws giving married women the right to
own property (passed in the United States in the years 1850 to 1920),
laws about division of property in case of marital dissolution, laws
regarding the distinction between marriage and cohabitation, and laws
punishing domestic violence. How did some of these laws affect the
likelihood that children were born out of marriage or out of couple?
Do they affect teen pregnancies or the likelihood that married women
die by suicide? Professor Grossbard will report on data from the
United States, as well as studies from New Zealand, Mexico and
elsewhere. This event is presented by the Economic and Social
Participation Research Initiative, the Melbourne Social Equity
Institute and the Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence Against
Women and their Children Shoshana Grossbard is a Member of the Family
Inequality Network, HCEO, U of Chicago and scholar in residence and
Professor of Economics emerita at San Diego State University. She is
also a research fellow at IZA , CESifo and GLO. She has published two
solo-authored books, five edited books, and over 80 peer-review book
chapters and journal articles. Most of her articles were published in
economics journals (including some top journals), but some articles
and entries appeared in sociology journals, demography journals, a
history book, interdisciplinary books and the International
Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has made novel
contributions to labor economics, economics of the family, economics
of gender, and law and economics. She was first to analyze labor
supply, fertility, participation in redistribution programs as a
function of intra-household bargaining and marriage market conditions,
and has made multiple theoretical and empirical contributions to the
economics of marriage and cohabitation pioneered by Nobel prize winner
Gary Becker, her mentor at the University of Chicago. She is the
current and founding editor of the Review of Economics of the
Household (REHO).
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