Marjorie McElroy

Professor Marjorie McElroy joined the Duke Economics faculty in 1970 after receiving her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and spending a year at Bell Laboratories. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Illinois, and Virginia. The National Science Foundation has supported her research in the areas of financial economics, demand systems and production, and the economics of the family. She has served on the National Science Foundation Panel in Economics, The American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession; she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is immediate past Vice President of the American Economic Association and, by coincidence, the current President of the Southern Economic Association.

In addition to directing both the Labor Workshop and the Labor Lunch, she teaches a graduate level course in labor economics. Since June 1995, she has served as the Chair of the Department of Economics and will continue in that role through August 2002. Her current research concentrates on labor economics and the economics of the family, with special attention to the interplay of bargained family decisions and marriage markets. Related research on China attempts to disentangle the effects of government policies from those of economic development.

Recent Research
Altruism in Marriage Markets
Bargaining on the Core in Marriage Markets

Office Information
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319 Social Science
(919) 660-1840
mcelroy@econ.duke.edu
(919) 684-8974

Selected Publications
"Nash Bargained Household Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Consumer Demand" (with M.J. Horney), International Economic Review, 1981
"Additive General Error Models for Production, Cost, and Derived Demand or Factor Share Systems," Journal of Political Economy, 1987
"Joint Estimation of Factor Sensitivities and Risk Premia for the Arbitrage Pricing Theory" (with Edwin Burmeister), Journal of Finance, 1988
"The Emperical Content of Nash-Bargained Household Behavior," Journal of Human Resources, 1990

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Course Descriptions
Economics of the Family (Econ 208S)
Workshop in Applied Microeconomics Economics (Econ 380)
Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group (Econ 400)



Links
Intrahousehold Distribution Sessions, PAA 2003


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