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Matthias Doepke

Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Matthias Doepke is the Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.

Doepke’s research explores how decisions taken within families shape macroeconomic outcomes and how, in turn, economic conditions feed back into what families do.

His research has been published in leading international journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.

He is co-author (with Fabrizio Zilibotti) of the bestselling book “Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.” Doepke is a former Coordinating Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Web page: https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~mdo738/