Nezih Guner is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain and a Research Professor of Barcelona School of Economics. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), and a leader of the Family Inequality Network (FI) within the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO).
His research has focused on changing household and family structure in industrialised countries, and the consequences of these changes for public policy. Besides his work on family economics, he has examined how misallocation of resources across firms affects the size distribution of firms and aggregate productivity. He has also been working on the interaction between labour market frictions and firm dynamics, and how this interaction affects the outcomes of trade reforms.
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The wife's protector: A quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology to the decline in marriage
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- Economic history 
- Frontiers of economic research
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Incarceration, unemployment, and the black–white marriage gap in the US
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- Gender 
- Labour Markets
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The impact of child-related transfers on labour supply, welfare, and the wider US economy
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- Labour Markets 
- Welfare state and social Europe
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Managers and productivity differences
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Does marriage make you healthier?
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- Health Economics