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Jennifer Roback Morse

American journalist

Jennifer Roback Morse (born 1953) is an economist, a writer and a Catholic social conservative. She is the president and founder of the Ruth Institute, which was formed as an affiliate of the same-sex marriage opposition group National Organization for Marriage.[1]

Early life and education

Jennifer Anne Roback was born November 12, 1953, in Columbus, Ohio, where she was raised in the Catholic faith.[2] She attended Oberlin College and completed her baccalaureate degree at Ohio State University, discovering "the free-market thinking that would form the initial basis of her professional life".[2] As a graduate student at the University of Rochester, she became attracted to libertarianism.[2] She earned her doctorate in 1980, with a dissertation entitled The value of local urban amenities: theory and measurement..[3] Working with Sherwin Rosen, she created the Roback-Rosen model in urban economics.[4]

In the 1970s she had an abortion and divorced her first husban

Jennifer Roback Morse

Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester, and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She was John M. Olin visiting scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. Over the years, she has been a regular contributor to the National Review OnlineNational Catholic Register, Town Hall, MercatorNet and To the Source.

Morse’s scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Economic History, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Independent Review, and The Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy.

In the fall of 2008, Morse was a consultant for the Protect Marriage campaign in favor of Proposition 8 in California. In April 2008, Morse presente

Jennifer Roback Morse

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage.  She is also the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

She is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World (2005), Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work (2001), recently reissued in paperback, and Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.  Dr. Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980 and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago during 1979-1980. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She was John M. Olin visiting scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. She is a regular contributor to the

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