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Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business
Expertise: business and government, environmental economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, law and economics, political economy, public affairs, public policy, election issues, MacArthur Family Network
Bio:
Pollack specializes primarily in economics and demography. His research interests include economics of the family, price and cost-of-living indexes, and environmental policy. He is the author of three books and more than 70 articles and serves on the editorial boards for a number of economic journals.
Pollak co-directs the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy, funded by a grant to the University from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The network brings together 13 scholars in economics, sociology, developmental psychology, and public policy to advance understanding of the connections between families, labor markets, and the economy as a whole.
After receiving a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pollak, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for 26 years. In 1990 he went to the University of Washington, and in 1995 he came to Washington University.
WUSTL Contact Information:
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| E-mail: | pollak@wustl.edu |
| Address: | Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Education:
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Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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B.A. at Amherst College
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Using game theory to understand eldercare
Understanding choices adult children make to care for elderly parents should help policymakers
Oct. 9,
2006 --
According to a 2005 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report, nursing homes in the United States in 1999 cost an average of $47,000 per year, with costs rising each year. Choosing a course of care for an elderly family member is both a financial decision and an emotional one. A business and economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis is using game theory to understand these long-term care decisions. More...
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Bad news for the Brady Bunch
School achievement higher for children in nuclear families than for children in blended or single-parent families
Feb. 2,
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Educational outcomes of children in stable blended families are substantially worse than those of children reared in traditional nuclear families, according to a study published in the most recent issue of the journal Demography. Both stepchildren and their half-siblings who are the joint children of both parents achieved at similar levels, well below those of traditional nuclear families where all the children are the joint offspring of both parents, according to economists Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas and Robert Pollak of Washington University in St. Louis.
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Commentary: Laureate Phelps
The Wall Street Journal
Oct. 18,
2006 -- Hoover Institution research fellow David Henderson writes about the work of Edmund Phelps, this year's Nobel laureate in economics. Phelps collaborated with Robert Pollak on his capital formation research. Pollak is now an economics professor at WUSTL.
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