Shelly
Lundberg
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 and past President of the Society of Labor Economists
and a Research Fellow at IZA. Lundberg’s
research is focused in labor economics and the economics of the family,
including issues such as discrimination, inequality, family decision-making and
the intra-household allocation of resources.
Her current research examines the sources of
educational inequality and of gender gaps in education. Recent projects include studies of decision-making by
children, the effects of child gender on parental behavior, the location
decisions of married couples, the impact of government-provided care for the
elderly on the labor supply of adult children, and the economic and social
returns to psychosocial traits. She
received her Ph.D in Economics from Northwestern University in 1981.
Research