Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute, a project to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage. She is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World (2005) and Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work (2001).
Dr. Morse taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years, and served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She is also the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Her public policy articles have appeared in Forbes, Policy Review, The American Enterprise, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal.
She currently lives in San Diego, CA. She and her husband are the parents of a birth child and an adopted child. From March 2003 to August 2006, Dr. Morse and her husband were foster parents for San Diego County, caring for a total of eight foster children.
