Position/Role: Senior Lecturer

Schools/Unit: Economics

Contact Details:

• Australian School of Business, Room 415
• Phone: +61 2 9385 7472
• Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
• Email: gigi.foster@unsw.edu.au
• URL: http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/gfoster

Qualifications:

• PhD in economics, University of Maryland College Park (2003) 
• BA magna cum laude in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale University (1996)

Research Areas:

• Applied micro-econometrics
• Economics of education
• Social influences on economic behavior 
• Parental time use and inputs to child development
• Implications of nonstandard utility functions and constraints

Academic Profile:

Gigi Foster's research has been supported by the Australian Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, and the University of South Australia.  She focusses primarily on aspects of human capital investment decisions and their welfare implications, with a particular emphasis on social influence.

Publications:

Selected Publications