Abstract
Preface to the Enlarged Edition Introduction 1. Single-Person Households 2. Division of Labor in Households and Families Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets 4. Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets 5. The Demand for Children Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 6. Family Background and the Opportunities of Children 7. Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 8. Altruism in the Family 9. Families in Nonhuman Species 10. Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce 11. The Evolution of the Family Supplement: The Family and the State Bibliography Index
Keywords
Assortative matingAltruism (biology)Division of labourHuman capitalFertilityEconomicsImperfectInequalitySociologyLabour economicsCapital (architecture)Economic growthPopulationPsychologyDemographySocial psychologyGeographyMarket economy
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- 1991
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- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 563-563
- Citations
- 8591
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Gary S. Becker
(1991).
A Treatise on the Family.
Population and Development Review
, 18
(3)
, 563-563.
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020665
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- 10.4159/9780674020665