Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics with Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter

Robert Pollak, the Hernreich Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Washington University in St. Louis, joins the podcast to discuss his work modeling economic decisions and bargaining within families and how he and his wife, an English professor and American poetry scholar, navigated the “two career problem.”

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/021-TWGO-Pollak_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-pollak-2023