I am a Professor of Economics at Carleton University, where I have taught since 1990. My research centres on families and public policy. My most-cited work is on modelling family-decision making, measuring inequality within the household, feminist economics, and tax-benefit policy towards families. Recently I have devoted more time to social media and popular writing, primarily for Worthwhile Canadian Initiative and the Globe and Mail.
My twitter profile says “I theorize about life.” I delight in using economics to explain everyday experience, and in sharing that passion with my students. I also have an on-going commitment to professional service, having served as Secretary Treasurer and also President of the Canadian Economics Association, co-editor of Review of Economics of the Household, on the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and the Journal of Socio-Economics and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University.
I hold a BA from Simon Fraser University, an MA from Queen’s, and completed my doctorate at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Tony Atkinson.