Michèle Tertilt

Michèle Tertilt
Born	1972  (age 49) Münster
Alma mater	University of Minnesota Bielefeld University
Occupation	Economist
Awards	Gossen Prize (2013) Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2017) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2015–) Leibniz Prize (2019)
Website	http://tertilt.vwl.uni-mannheim.de
Academic career
Institutions	Stanford University (2003–2011) University of Mannheim (2010–)
Doctoral advisor	Larry E. Jones
Doctoral students	Todd Kurtis Schoellman, Alessandra Voena
Notable students	Vera Molitor, Giuseppe Corbisiero, Henning Roth

Michèle Tertilt (born 1972) is a German professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. Prior to joining the University of Mannheim, Michèle Tertilt was an assistant professor at Stanford University. She also spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania and one year as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution [1]. She is currently an editorial board member at the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics.^[1][2] In 2017 she received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award – a biennial award by the European Economic Association and the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation to a European economist no older than 45 years old who has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe.^[3] In September 2013 she was awarded the Gossen Prize – an annual award by the Verein für Socialpolitik which recognizes the best published economist under 45 working in the German-speaking area. Michèle Tertilt is the first woman to win this prestigious German prize in economics.^[4] Her main focus is around development and intra-family interactions. She has also worked on consumer credit and bankruptcies [2].

Biography and career[]

Michèle Tertilt studied economics at Bielefeld University and obtained her PhD from the University of Minnesota. After pursuing her PhD, Michèle Tertilt was an assistant professor at Stanford University for seven years. During that time she also spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania and one year as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Since 2010 she has been a full professor at the University of Mannheim.^[5]

Research[]

Tertilt's research concentrates on macroeconomics with a special focus on development and intra-family interactions. She has also worked on consumer credit and bankruptcies. Her work has been published in top journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.^[6] Her research has been financed by a European Research Council Starting Grant (2013–2018),^[7] through a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant (2008–2011),^[8] a Sloan Research Fellowship (2009–2011) and a NSF grant (2005–2008)^[9]

Tertilt made important contributions to family economics and household finance. Her work has uncovered the salient implications of gender roles for macroeconomics, development, and fertility. Her research has also contributed to the understanding of the development of consumer credit markets and default rates.^[10] Joint with Matthias Doepke, she wrote the chapter "Families in Macroeconomics" for the “Handbook of Macroeconomics,”.^[11] This chapter sheds light on "the importance of gender inequality and family dynamics for macro and points to many fruitful avenues for future research", she said in an interview with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO).^[4]

Academic honours & awards[]

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2019)
• Fellow of the Econometric Society (2017)
• Yrjö Jahnsson Award, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation and the European Economic Association (2017)
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Elected Member, since 2015
• Gossen Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik, 2013
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2009–2011
• Hoover National Fellow, 2007–2008
• Best Dissertation Award, University of Minnesota, May 2004
• Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2001–2002
• Fellowship in Applied Economics, Social Science Research Council, 1999–2000
• Doctoral Fellowship, German National Merit Foundation, 1998–1999
• Graduate School Block Grant, University of Minnesota, 1997–1998
• Fellowship, German National Merit Foundation, 1996–1997
• Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, 1995–1996 ^[5]

Selected publications[]

• “Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies,” with I. Livshits and J. MacGee, American Economic Journal Macro, Vol. 2, No. 2, 165–193, April 2010.
• “An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826–1960,” with L. E. Jones, in book “Frontiers of Family Economics, Vol. 1” edited by Peter Rupert, Emerald Press, 2008.
• “Consumer Bankruptcy – A Fresh Start,” with I. Livshits and J. MacGee, American Economic Review, March 2007, Vol. 97 (1), 402–418.
• “Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth,” with M. Golosov and L. Jones, Econometrica, July 2007, Vol. 75 (4), 1039–1071.
• “Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000,” with A. Salcedo and T. Schoellman, Quantitative Economics, 2012, Vol. 3, 122–175.
• “Families in Macroeconomics,” joint with M. Doepke, chapter in Handbook of Macroeconomics, Vol. 2, Elsevier, 2016.
• “Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings,” Journal of Political Economy, December 2005, Vol.113 (6), 1341–1371.
• “Property Rights and Efficiency in OLG Models with Endogenous Fertility,” with A. Schoonbroodt, Journal of Economic Theory, March 2014, Vol. 150, 551–582.
• “The Democratization of Credit and the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies,” joint with I. Livshits and J. MacGee, Review of Economic Studies, 2016, Vol. 83(4), 1673–1710.
• “Women’s Liberation: What’s in it for Men?,” with M. Doepke, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2009, Vol. 124, No. 4, 1541–1591.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Michèle Tertilt publications indexed by Google Scholar