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A General Equilibrium Model of 'Efficient' Unions 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 18
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 0 0 2 16 0 5 34 2,916
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 2 1,008 0 2 27 2,439
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 6 909 2 13 117 2,970
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 1 12 0 0 8 1,979
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 2 8 404 4 21 73 989
A Theory of Rational Addiction 2 4 14 55 6 15 72 3,836
A Theory of Social Interactions 0 1 5 4,135 0 4 71 12,548
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 3 469 0 0 8 1,410
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 2 1,605 1 2 31 4,973
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 8 1 1 26 2,144
Autobiography 0 1 1 96 0 1 3 214
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 5 1,170 0 3 44 3,700
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 1 5 0 0 4 1,081
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 11
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 649 0 0 7 1,618
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 1 606 1 2 18 2,398
Economics of Marital Instability 0 0 1 434 1 2 14 1,582
Erosion Control: Costs and Income Distribution Under Regulation, Tax and Subsidy 0 0 0 4 0 0 6 16
FERTILITY CHOICE IN A MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 1 2 7 30 1,981
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 1 885 0 1 16 1,639
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 1 1 19 1,243 6 12 87 3,579
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 0 0 1 3 0 1 17 35
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 1 2 11 1,063 1 5 40 2,093
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 0 4 22 1,203
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 863
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 1 1 2 18 1 4 21 1,997
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 0 2 20 1,275
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 3 32 2 7 33 176
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 2 11 31 2,232
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 1,596 1 3 24 3,487
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 2 3 2,602 1 6 33 5,996
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 162 0 1 8 606
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 1 3 8 1,180
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 2 11 0 0 16 38
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 2 3 19 0 4 25 1,129
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 1 1 16 1,372
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 1 13 1 2 13 1,256
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 3 21 1 2 22 1,310
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 0 185 0 2 10 452
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 0 0 0 609 0 0 15 1,399
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 0 1 3 213 0 1 19 716
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 914
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 6 0 1 10 1,431
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 0 4 21 1,836
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 1 3 1,787 5 13 55 5,260
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 0 1 9 798 0 6 52 2,620
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 0 2 13 413
The Family and the State 0 0 0 4 0 2 10 869
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 919 0 0 20 2,714
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 4 2 4 20 34
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 1 268 0 4 21 782
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 230 0 0 6 455
Total Working Papers 6 20 118 24,301 44 190 1,343 100,184


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 0 0 0 17 1 1 6 769
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 0 3 10 1,247 2 19 61 3,636
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 2 5 20 1,722 3 13 91 5,319
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 4 10 21 4,018 31 45 92 19,601
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 3 9 36 4,262 7 23 143 13,164
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 3 3 11 136 6 12 49 568
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 2 8 38 6,296 15 34 151 17,979
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 1 6 1,909 1 3 26 4,999
A Theory of Rational Addiction 0 9 54 7,463 17 54 281 28,859
A Theory of Social Interactions 3 7 27 1,945 6 22 124 5,735
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 1 2 15 825 1 10 48 2,758
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 2 378 0 3 12 1,157
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 0 6 10 1,238 0 10 56 3,276
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 0 1 43 3,351
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 8 23 68 1,870 19 59 228 5,439
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 0 5 785 1 3 56 2,278
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 4 24 140 4,644 19 112 622 16,493
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life 0 0 0 18 1 5 23 143
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 0 0 0 370 7 32 114 11,588
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 3 49 0 3 24 826
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 1 3 291 1 3 19 828
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 0 205 1 1 13 831
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 4 207 0 2 25 896
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 1 3 404 0 3 24 1,256
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 0 2 19 1,329
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 2 3 27 1,981 5 15 111 4,873
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 2 4 19 888
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 0 0 0 5 1 2 4 38
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 0 0 1 98 0 1 11 473
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States 0 0 3 154 0 0 11 324
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 2 65 2 2 12 221
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 0 260 0 0 48 741
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy 0 0 0 8 0 0 7 30
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 23
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * 0 0 0 181 0 0 4 440
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 0 0 3 301 0 1 18 656
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 3 9 39 3,623 16 40 203 11,661
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3 10 22 1,590 7 23 76 4,528
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 1 16 2,310 2 7 67 6,975
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 6 80 2 8 63 1,066
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 1 10 82 4,338 16 59 328 11,037
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 1 4 12 1,807 4 10 70 3,730
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 7 13 28 1,693 11 34 99 3,711
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 3 34 0 0 14 138
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 3 4 25 2,308 5 18 103 5,692
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 0 1 4 322 0 2 18 865
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 0 3 10 382 0 4 32 1,138
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 1 147 0 0 6 334
On the Economics of the Family: Reply to a Skeptic 0 0 0 216 0 0 7 660
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children 5 11 47 2,891 13 51 184 7,367
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 4 204 2 3 17 583
Population and Economic Growth 0 0 3 1,091 1 2 16 2,858
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 1 46 0 2 9 103
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 0 0 2 711 0 1 26 1,500
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 0 0 9 125
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 1 2 5 812 1 7 22 2,137
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment 0 0 0 232 0 0 4 643
Selling the Right to Immigrate 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 150
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 127 1 1 3 343
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 3 16 1,810 4 21 83 5,422
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 2 7 20 512 4 14 75 2,983
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 0 2 119 1 5 25 943
The Family and the State 0 0 1 84 0 1 15 1,628
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 1 2 150 1 2 10 407
The Future of Law and Economics 0 0 2 98 1 2 13 246
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 1 2 7 142 1 5 41 478
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 1 1 8 637
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 2 10 385 2 4 40 1,254
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 1 1 5 720 2 7 63 2,426
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 3 6 139 10,889
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 1 2 6 37 3 5 34 109
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 0 0 3 22 0 0 11 800
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 0 1 8 227
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 37
Una teoría de la distribución del tiempo 1 1 5 35 2 5 15 87
Unemployment in Europe and the United States 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 79
Voir La Vie De Façon Économique 0 0 1 18 1 2 12 66
Total Journal Articles 65 202 903 72,909 256 855 4,578 257,847
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 23 124 472 5,286
An Economic Analysis of the Family 0 1 4 54 1 7 23 133
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 3 11 53 3,251
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 1 14 53 1,297
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 206 689 3,021 7,034
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 40 147 774 9,573
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 49 160 632 19,542
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 4 36 2,131
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 34
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 12 28 141 2,411
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 9 40 249 3,557
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 1 1 17 165
Total Books 0 1 4 54 348 1,228 5,481 54,414


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 0 2 10 550 2 15 67 2,006
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 4 669 1 7 46 1,946
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 1 3 397 1 12 33 952
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 21
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 1 3 306 0 3 14 490
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 4 9 641 0 4 19 956
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 11 33 148 2,503 46 188 786 9,249
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 5 126 1 2 21 223
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 2 8 322 2 4 17 431
Appendix B, Mathematical Discussion of Relation between Age, Earnings, and Wealth, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 1 136 0 0 8 228
Appendix B: Mathematical Discussion of Relation between Age, Earnings, and Wealth, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 2 10 306 0 2 18 443
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 1 12 37 1,829 17 77 246 7,311
Human Capital Revisited 2 10 47 886 8 27 144 1,713
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 3 6 1,261 1 14 66 3,544
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 4 435 1 8 76 1,327
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 0 3 16 392 8 21 76 1,095
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 1 3 26 290 2 7 58 546
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 1 9 30 719 5 16 68 1,170
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 1 9 44 552 3 21 129 1,233
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 1 13 48 1,197 7 33 146 2,380
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 5 21 38 147 14 82 175 704
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 1 4 25 823 3 17 93 1,711
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 4 14 48 1,948 5 24 104 3,718
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 4 17 619 1 12 46 1,496
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 0 6 25 1,031 1 16 47 1,604
Rates of Return from College Education 0 2 9 318 1 5 25 522
Rates of Return from College Education 0 4 16 754 1 9 34 1,251
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 1 2 6 213 1 2 16 346
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 3 8 459 0 4 15 649
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 1 3 19 389 2 4 39 656
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 2 11 41 897 3 13 71 1,306
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 0 0 0 76 0 0 9 125
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 1 1 2 119 1 1 15 213
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 171 0 1 28 338
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 1 5 386 2 9 64 1,005
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 3 8 478 0 3 18 694
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 0 4 227 0 0 13 385
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 12
Total Chapters 34 186 730 22,572 140 665 2,866 53,999


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