Shelly Lundberg

Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography, Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research is focused in labor economics, demographic economics, and the economics of the family, including the study of issues such as discrimination, inequality, family decision-making and the intra-household allocation of resources.

Her projects in recent years 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, the economic returns to psychosocial traits, and the gender gap in educational attainment. Recently, she has written about the barriers to increasing women’s participation in the economics profession and on gender economics more broadly.

Lundberg is a Research Fellow at IZA, a Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists, past President of the European Society for Population Economics, and past Vice-President of the American Economic Association. In 2020, Lundberg was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America and as Chair of the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She received her PhD in Economics from Northwestern University and her B.A. from the University of British Columbia.