Marjorie B McElroy, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	219A Social Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1840
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://econ.duke.edu/people/mcelroy

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• ECON 495S.02, HONORS SEMINAR I Synopsis

  TBA, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ECON 951S.01, APPLIED MICRO RESEARCH Synopsis

  Social Sciences 111, Tu 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

PhD	Northwestern University	1969
B.A.	Pennsylvania State University	1965
no degree	Douglass College	1962

Specialties:

Microeconomics

Research Interests: Labor, Demand Systems, and Financial Economics

Professor McElroy focuses her research on the subjects of labor, demand systems, and financial economics. She has completed several of her research projects under the funding provided by National Science Foundation grants, including her latest work on the economics of the family in relation to bargain decision-making and marriage markets. She is also currently investigating altruism in marriage markets and bargaining on the core in marriage markets. She has also completed studies involving the investigation of international populations, such as her work with D. Yang on, “Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects on China’s Population Policies.” She has collaborated with her contemporaries on several projects, including her earlier work with Hwei-ju Chen, R. Gnanadesikan, and J.R. Kettenring entitled, “A Statistical Study of Groupings of Corporations,” and her project with T.J. Kniesner and Stephen Wilcox on, “Family Structure, Race, and the Feminization of Poverty.” One of her recent published studies, which she completed independently, is entitled, “What’s New with Nash-Bargained Household Demands?”

Bio

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. M.B. McElroy with D. Yang, "Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects of China's Population Policies" (Accepted, January 7-9, 2000) (Presented at AEA meetings in Boston, MA.)
2. M.B. McElroy, "What's New with Nash-Bargained Household Demands?", Southern Economic Journal (July, 2002)
3. M.B. McElroy, "What's New with Nash-Bargained Household Demands?" (November, Accepted, 2001) (Presidential Address, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings.)
4. M.B. McElroy with D. Yang, "Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects of China's Population Policies", American Economic Review, vol. 90 no. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 389-392
5. M.B. McElroy, "The Policy Implications of Family Bargaining and Marriage Markets", in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries, edited by Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Ackerman (1997), pp. 53-74, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press