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A General Equilibrium Model of 'Efficient' Unions 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 0 0 5 14 0 3 13 2,881
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 1 2 1,006 1 4 11 2,412
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 7 12 901 3 16 54 2,850
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 3 11 0 0 4 1,971
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 0 3 8 396 4 13 40 915
A Theory of Rational Addiction 1 2 14 40 2 6 33 3,761
A Theory of Social Interactions 1 3 7 4,130 1 11 38 12,475
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 1 4 466 0 1 7 1,402
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 7 1 2 4 2,118
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 1,603 2 3 12 4,942
Autobiography 0 0 2 95 0 0 3 211
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 5 1,165 1 8 25 3,656
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 1,077
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 1 2 2 0 1 5 10
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 649 0 0 1 1,610
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 1 1 605 0 1 4 2,380
Economics of Marital Instability 0 0 0 433 0 0 1 1,568
Erosion Control: Costs and Income Distribution Under Regulation, Tax and Subsidy 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 10
FERTILITY CHOICE IN A MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 1 0 4 25 1,951
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 1 2 13 884 1 3 18 1,623
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 1 2 18 1,223 6 16 68 3,486
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 0 1 1 2 0 2 15 18
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 1 4 14 1,051 6 12 32 2,050
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 1 5 15 1,179
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 850
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 3 15 1 3 8 1,975
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 1,255
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 1 2 157 2,201
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 2 28 0 2 12 140
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 4 1,596 0 2 10 3,463
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 2 3 2,599 2 6 16 5,963
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 1,172
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 1 1 162 0 1 2 598
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 3 9 1 1 7 22
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 1 4 16 1 3 15 1,104
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 1 7 16 1,356
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 0 12 0 1 3 1,241
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 1 6 18 1 2 10 1,288
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 1 185 0 0 2 442
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 0 0 2 609 0 1 5 1,384
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 1 1 2 210 1 2 9 695
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 907
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 1,814
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 1 6 1 2 9 1,421
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 1 5 1,783 2 4 19 5,204
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 0 1 16 789 1 4 38 2,567
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 400
The Family and the State 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 857
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 6 919 0 0 11 2,694
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 14
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 1 1 2 230 1 2 3 447
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 267 2 4 19 761
Total Working Papers 8 40 173 24,175 45 166 833 98,804


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 0 1 2 17 0 1 5 763
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 0 1 10 1,236 0 2 26 3,573
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 9 24 1,702 3 14 65 5,226
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 1 6 28 3,996 2 13 54 19,504
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 3 8 37 4,225 5 12 82 13,013
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 1 8 122 1 3 29 512
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 2 5 23 6,258 3 10 72 17,824
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 3 1,903 0 4 19 4,973
A Theory of Rational Addiction 3 9 57 7,407 10 38 169 28,574
A Theory of Social Interactions 2 4 19 1,916 11 25 78 5,604
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 0 1 10 809 1 4 28 2,707
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 3 376 0 1 6 1,145
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 1 3 12 1,228 2 6 32 3,218
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 2 5 25 3,306
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 3 12 52 1,797 7 24 118 5,198
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 2 2 3 780 3 8 30 2,219
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 10 28 69 4,500 24 76 270 15,852
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 120
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 0 0 0 370 7 26 102 11,472
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 46 0 1 10 801
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 2 7 288 0 3 15 809
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 3 205 0 0 3 818
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 1 3 203 0 3 14 870
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 2 5 401 2 10 27 1,228
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 1 9 27 1,308
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 4 13 30 1,950 11 28 78 4,751
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 4 17 866
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 0 0 1 5 0 0 2 34
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 0 0 1 97 0 0 1 460
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States 0 1 1 151 0 2 5 313
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 7 63 0 2 20 209
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 1 260 1 2 5 693
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 23
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 18
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * 0 0 0 181 0 0 0 436
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 0 2 7 298 2 10 24 637
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 3 8 34 3,583 19 56 207 11,446
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3 6 12 1,567 6 20 58 4,446
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 3 23 2,293 6 14 81 6,904
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 1 74 1 1 8 1,002
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 5 12 45 4,252 18 39 179 10,696
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 0 2 17 1,794 2 9 51 3,658
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 0 5 31 1,663 3 11 73 3,605
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 2 31 1 1 6 124
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 0 5 41 2,282 1 15 102 5,583
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 0 1 2 318 0 1 7 844
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 0 0 2 372 2 3 9 1,106
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 1 3 146 2 3 11 327
On the Economics of the Family: Reply to a Skeptic 0 0 1 216 0 0 2 653
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children 5 15 46 2,842 13 42 145 7,172
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 4 200 0 2 18 564
Population and Economic Growth 1 1 8 1,088 1 4 23 2,841
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 4 45 0 0 9 94
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 0 1 7 709 1 3 16 1,470
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 116
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 3 10 807 0 6 19 2,115
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment 0 1 2 232 0 1 3 639
Selling the Right to Immigrate 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 143
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 126 1 1 5 340
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 3 21 1,792 6 19 89 5,331
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 2 7 27 488 9 23 79 2,903
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 1 1 3 117 2 2 12 917
The Family and the State 1 1 5 82 2 5 19 1,611
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 1 3 148 0 3 11 397
The Future of Law and Economics 0 1 3 96 0 1 7 233
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 0 1 7 134 2 5 26 434
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 1 1 2 628
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 1 4 374 0 3 14 1,212
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 7 715 0 3 37 2,362
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 17 66 364 10,739
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 0 2 10 31 0 6 27 75
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 1 1 1 19 2 3 7 789
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 219
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 35
Una teoría de la distribución del tiempo 1 1 3 30 1 1 4 71
Unemployment in Europe and the United States 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 78
Voir La Vie De Façon Économique 0 0 3 17 0 0 5 54
Total Journal Articles 57 196 819 71,960 218 719 3,202 253,053
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 34 110 375 4,794
An Economic Analysis of the Family 1 1 6 50 1 5 16 110
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 0 13 36 3,192
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 7 13 110 1,239
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 118 349 1,484 3,891
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 57 130 633 8,762
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 33 158 505 18,876
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 2,094
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 23
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 8 25 81 2,264
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 8 33 173 3,299
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 148
Total Books 1 1 6 50 267 841 3,432 48,692


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 2 4 10 540 5 14 38 1,937
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 3 665 0 3 17 1,898
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 1 5 394 0 4 10 917
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 2 5 11 628 2 7 17 933
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 1 2 9 299 1 2 15 472
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 17 39 140 2,344 93 223 723 8,401
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 1 6 118 0 1 7 199
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 1 3 313 0 1 5 412
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 1 2 10 133 1 2 10 218
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 1 3 294 0 2 5 423
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 2 4 17 1,791 5 24 102 7,060
Human Capital Revisited 6 13 56 834 15 36 109 1,561
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 5 18 1,252 3 9 43 3,473
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 2 4 14 428 6 17 65 1,244
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 1 3 15 376 3 14 63 1,013
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 0 6 24 260 2 11 40 483
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 3 13 36 685 6 26 63 1,098
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 3 16 52 502 7 28 109 1,091
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 3 17 46 1,141 9 44 120 2,219
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 3 5 12 108 7 20 64 521
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 3 16 47 1,893 9 32 114 3,602
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 4 10 34 794 8 18 64 1,614
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 2 20 599 1 4 36 1,445
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 7 20 1,004 1 9 32 1,554
Rates of Return from College Education 1 5 8 737 1 8 15 1,216
Rates of Return from College Education 1 5 14 306 3 10 23 494
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 1 4 7 450 1 5 8 633
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 1 2 7 204 1 2 14 327
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 3 7 22 366 4 8 36 612
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 3 5 27 852 5 11 57 1,228
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 0 0 2 76 0 0 2 116
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 0 3 117 0 0 5 198
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 0 3 171 0 0 6 308
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 3 9 378 4 10 36 934
Underinvestment in College Education? 1 2 11 219 1 2 14 368
Underinvestment in College Education? 1 4 10 469 1 5 13 675
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Total Chapters 68 214 734 21,740 205 612 2,102 50,914


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