[2] He is currently the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, holding joint appointments in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences[3] and in the Olin Business School.
This interdisciplinary network explored issues related to marriage, divorce, and family members' use of time and income, focusing on their implications for educational and other outcomes for children.
[2] Pollak's early work was on the consistency of individual and collective decisions over time and led to widely cited publications, including a joint article with Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps.
Pollak's articles reporting this work are collected in a book, The Theory of the Cost of Living Index published by Oxford University Press in 1989.
[13] Pollak's move to the University of Washington in 1985 marked the beginning of his long and fruitful collaboration with Shelly Lundberg on bargaining in marriage and other family issues.
[14] A closely related empirical paper (joint with Shelly Lundberg and Terence J. Wales) finds strong evidence that the fraction of household resources controlled by each spouse is an important determinant of allocation within marriage.
[15] Pollak's work with Liliana Pezzin and Barbara Schone applies related ideas to adult children's provision of long-term care for their disabled elderly parents.