people

Shelly Lundberg

Economics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Distinguished Professor
Leonard Broom Professor of Demography

Broom Center Affiliation(s)

Area Director, Family Demography Theme

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.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

National Institute on Aging. 2013-2018. “Add Health Parent Study: Phase I.” V. (Co-investigator), Joseph Hotz and Kathleen Mullan Harris (PIs). R01 AG042794-02. $7,000,000.

slundberg@ucsb.edu

805.893.8619

https://sjlundberg.weebly.com/

Family Demography

Sex and Gender

Publications

Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena, eds. 2023

"Preface"

Handbook of the Economics of the Family: Volume 1, Elsevier, 2023: xv-xxiii.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lundberg, Shelly. 2023.

"Gender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination"

Research in Labor Economics 50th Celebratory Volume, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023, 50: 151-189

Research Themes:

Sex and Gender

Shelly Lundberg (with Richard Startz) 2022.

"The end of Roe creates new challenges in higher education"

Brown Center Chalkboard, Brookings Institution, August 9, 2022. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-end-of-roe-creates-new-challenges-in-higher-education/

Research Themes:

Sex and Gender

Lundberg, Shelly. 2022.

"Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities"

Research in Labor Economics, forthcoming, 2022, 50.

Research Themes:

Sex and Gender

Bedard, Kelly, Jacqueline Dodd and Shelly Lundberg. 2021

"Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics? "

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111(5).

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health

Lei, Ziteng and Shelly Lundberg. 2020.

"Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage "

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. October 2020,178: 424-448.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Lundberg, Shelly. 2020.

"Educational Gender Gaps. "

Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health

Lundberg, Shelly. 2020.

"Women in the economics profession: Challenges and opportunities along the pipeline. "

Introduction to Women in Economics, CEPR Press.

Research Themes:

Sex and Gender

Link

Shelly Lundberg (with Jenna Stearns). 2019.

"Women in Economics: Stalled Progress"

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2019, 33(1): 3-22

Research Themes:

Sex and Gender

Lundberg, Shelly. 2018.

"Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital."

Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW: University of Chicago Press.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Lundberg, S (with Anne Ardila Brenøe). 2018.

"Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?"

European Economic Review, 109: 42-62.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Shelly Lundberg (with Katrine Løken and Julie Riise). 2017.

"Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children."

Journal of Human Resources. 52(1): 247-271.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Lundberg, S (with Aloysius Siow). 2017.

"Canadian Contributions to Family Economics"

Canadian Journal of Economics December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Shelly Lundberg (with Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns). 2016.

"Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing."

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Shelly Lundberg with Robert Pollak). 2015.

"The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010"

Future of Children. Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Shelly Lundberg. 2015.

"Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld's The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America"

Journal of Economic Literature. December 2015: 53(4): 945-960

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Lundberg, Shelly. 2015.

"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"

Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Shelly Lundberg. 2015.

"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.

Research Themes: