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A Treatise on the Family
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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
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“Microeconomic theories of fertility suggest that higher levels of socioeconomic resources positively influence couples’ childbearing but that this influence is also gendered with men’s resources having a more consistently positive effect (Becker 1993).”
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“people have more children when costs of childrearing are lower (Becker 1991; Hotz et al. 1997)”
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“the number of children couples choose to have depends on their purchasing power, the time and money (including foregone income) expected to be needed for childrearing, and parents' preferences for spending that time and money on children rather than using it for other purposes (Becker 1991)”
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“Becker's New Home Economics (Becker 1960(Becker , 1991;;Cigno 1991) claims that children are desired but costly goods and that childbearing decisions are rational actions based on costs and benefits within the household production model.”
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- Authors
- Becker, G. S.
- Corresponding author
- Becker, Gary S.
- Venue
- Population and Development Review
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 1991-12-31
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 563-563
- ISSN
- 0098-7921 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2070415764
- Cited by
- 10,565
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 553.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Population and Development Review (publishedVersion)
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Keywords
- household economy, division of household labor, gender division of labor, human capital, polygamy, monogamy, marriage market, assortative mating, fertility demand, family background, intergenerational mobility, evolution of the family, marriage, divorce, imperfect information, family and state
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