Bram De Rock
Professor of Mathematical Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles and KU Leuven
Bram is a Professor of Mathematical Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles and KU Leuven. He is also affiliated with CEPR, the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and the College of Europe. He specializes in household economics, consumer behavior, and applied microeconomic theory, with a particular focus on revealed preference methods and structural models of multi-member household decision-making. His recent work studies how households make consumption, labor supply, marriage, and fertility decisions, as well as issues related to child welfare and inequality within families.
Recent work by Bram De Rock
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When the goal is child nutrition, should transfers always go to mothers?
An experiment in Nairobi's informal settlements found that parents usually made child-nutrition decisions cooperatively, and that fathers were at least as willing as mothers to allocate resources to their children's meals – challenging the case for u...
Published 22.05.26