Lena Edlund
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics
Research
Selected Work
- "Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics" (with Rohini Pande and Laila Haider), Accepted August 2004 The Journal of the European Economic Association.
- "Sex and the City," Accepted spring 2004 The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
- "Why have Women Become Left-Wing: the Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage" (with Rohini Pande) Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2002, vol. 117, pp. 917-961.
- "A Theory of Prostitution" (with Evelyn Korn), Journal of Political Economy, February 2002, vol. 110, pp. 181-214.
- "Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of Dowry Inflation: A Comment," Journal of Political Economy, December 2000, vol. 108, pp. 1327-1333.
- "Son Preference, Sex Ratios and Marriage Patterns," Journal of Political Economy, December 1999, vol. 107, pp. 1275-1304.
See Also
- Research grant: The State, the Family and Redistribution: The Political Salience of Marriage
- Seed grants received by Lena Edlund
- Working paper: Trivers-Willard at Birth and One Year: Evidence from U.S. Natality Data 1983-2001





