Erik Hurst
V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and the John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business; Deputy Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Erik Hurst is a macroeconomist whose work focuses on housing markets, labor markets and household financial behavior. One strand of Hurst's research explores the importance of home production in determining time series, life cycle, and business cycle variation in measured consumption spending. His contributions to this literature include "Consumption versus Expenditure" and "Deconstructing Life Cycle Expenditure" in the Journal of Political Economy, "Life Cycle Prices and Production" and "Time Use During the Great Recession" in the American...