Leora Friedberg

Leora Friedberg

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-3225

Address:
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Monroe Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Research Interests

Public economics, labor economics

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Johns Hopkins University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current Downloadable Papers

The Chore Wars: Household Bargaining and Leisure Time (.pdf)

"Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information" (.pdf) with Steven Stern

"Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage",
joint with Michael Owyang and Tara Sinclair

"Presentation on Time Use Research"

"Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households" (.pdf) with Anthony Webb

Research Papers

"The Social Security Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men," Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 12, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998;

"Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data," American Economic Review, Volume 88 (3), 608-627, June 1998;

"The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement," Journal of Public Economics, Volume 71 (2), 213-232, February 1999;

"The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 82 (1), 48-63, February 2000.