lgrogan at uoguelph.ca
Areas of Specialization: Labour Economics
Louise Grogan joined the Dept. of Economics in 2002. She received a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics, an MA from the Universite Catholique de Louvain and, a PhD from the Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam. In 2010 she became a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia.
Her research interests lie primarily in labour and development economics. Her current projects examine how electrification impacts intrahousehold resource allocation and labour market development, why Russian men were disproportionately affected by economic transition, and how migration and remittances impact households in Central Asia.
She has published in journals including Economics of Transition, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of African Economies.
Grogan, L. and K. Koka (2010) "Young Children and Women's Labour Supply in Russia, 1992-2004" forthcoming in Economics of Transition.
Grogan, L. (2007) "Patrilocality and Human Capital Accumulation", Economics of Transition. Volume 15, Issue 4, Date: October 2007, Pages: 685-705.
Grogan, L. and A. Sadanand “An Economic Interpretatation of violence in the household” [full text] (revised March 2011)
Grogan, L. and A. Sadanand (2011) “Electrification and Labour Supply in Poor Households: Evidence from Nicaragua” [full text] (revised Jan. 2011)
Grogan, L. (2010) “Household Electrification and fertility in poor countries” [full text] (revised Dec. 2010)