Reuben Gronau

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Reuben Gronau
Born1937 (age 8687)
Nationality Israeli
Academic career
Institution Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Field Economic sociology
Labour economics
Alma mater Columbia University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral
advisor
Jacob Mincer
Gary Becker
Awards Jacob Mincer Award (2008)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Reuben Gronau (born 1937) is an Israeli economist, notable for his contributions to labour economics and economic sociology, in particular the Gronau model of time allocation and home production. [1]

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Biography

Reuven Gronau was born in Tel Aviv.

He studied economics at the Hebrew University and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1960 and 1963. He continued his studies at Columbia University and in 1967 received a Ph.D. in economics under supervision of Jacob Mincer and Gary Becker, with a thesis on transport economics. [2]

In 1967 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University in the Economics Department, and in 1979 was appointed a full professor. [3]

In 2005, Gronau was awarded the Michael Landau Prize in Israeli Economics by the Council for the Study of Israel and Zionist History.

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References

  1. Gronau, Reuben (1977). "Leisure, Home Production, and Work—the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy . 85 (6): 1099–1123. doi:10.1086/260629. JSTOR   1837419. S2CID   862298.
  2. Gronau, Reuben (1970). "The Effect of Traveling Time on the Demand for Passenger Transportation". Journal of Political Economy. 78 (2): 377–394. doi:10.1086/259635. JSTOR   1830696. S2CID   154637374.
  3. "The Bogen Family Department of Economics". en.economics.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-03-21.