Faculty & Staff
Emily Wiemers, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617.287.6984
- Email: emily.wiemers@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Rm 80
Areas of Expertise
Household Behavior and Family Economics, Labor and Demographic Economics, Economics of Health and Aging
Degrees
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Professional Publications & Contributions
- The Effects of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up (January, 2011), Working Paper
Moving Up and Moving Out: The Celtic Tiger and Home Leaving among Irish Young Adults (June, 2011), Working Paper.
Aging and Geographic Proximity among Family Members in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (with Kathleen McGarry) (May, 2010), Working Paper.
Living Arrangements of Mothers and their Adult Children over the Life Course (with V. Joseph Hotz and Kathleen McGarry) (January, 2010), Working Paper.
Additional Information
Emily Wiemers is interested in living arrangements and transfers among extended family members over the life course. In recent work she has examined the choice of co-residence among children and parents, as young adults transition to adulthood, as middle aged adults face unemployment, and as older adults require care. She is also working on several projects that examine the relationship between geographic proximity and well-being among extended family members over the life-cycle. She recently received a Sloan Foundation Research Grant for a research project on aging, work, and intergenerational obligations with co-principal investigator Professor Suzanne Bianchi of UCLA.
