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We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Shelly Lundberg

Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography and Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Bergen, Norway, a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists, and is currently President of the European Society for Population Economics. Lundberg has just completed a term as Chair of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Her research has focused on the economics of family behavior and the determinants of inequality; she has contributed to the economics of discrimination and to the modeling of resource allocation and bargaining within households.  Her current research examines the sources of educational inequality and of gender gaps in education. Recent projects 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, and the economic and social returns to psychosocial traits.  Lundberg’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.