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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 3 5 14 1 5 13 2,879
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 2 2 1,006 2 6 9 2,410
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 4 6 12 898 8 16 53 2,842
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 2 4 11 0 3 5 1,971
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 1 8 394 3 9 38 905
A Theory of Rational Addiction 1 3 13 39 4 8 34 3,759
A Theory of Social Interactions 1 1 7 4,128 5 8 53 12,469
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 3 465 0 1 9 1,401
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 7 1 3 4 2,117
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 1,603 1 4 11 4,940
Autobiography 0 0 2 95 0 1 3 211
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 6 1,164 2 7 25 3,650
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 1,077
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 9
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 604 0 2 3 2,379
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 649 0 1 1 1,610
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 3 6 32 1,950
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 1 3 12 883 2 5 17 1,622
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 1 3 21 1,222 6 14 71 3,476
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 1 1 2 2 1 2 15 17
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 2 3 18 1,049 3 4 32 2,041
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 2 5 13 1,176
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 850
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 2 14 1 3 8 1,973
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 1,254
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 3 28 2 4 15 140
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 1 10 159 2,200
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 3 1,595 0 2 9 3,461
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 1 4 2,598 2 5 16 5,959
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 161 0 1 1 597
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 1,172
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 1 4 9 0 2 7 21
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 4 7 18 1,353
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 1 1 5 16 1 3 14 1,102
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 0 12 0 2 2 1,240
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 1 3 9 18 1 4 18 1,287
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 2 4 1,383
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 0 0 1 209 1 1 10 694
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 906
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 1 6 0 3 10 1,419
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 1,814
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 1 4 1,782 2 5 25 5,202
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 1 3 19 789 3 10 43 2,566
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 0 3 3 400
The Family and the State 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 857
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 4 1 3 5 14
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 1 6 919 0 1 13 2,694
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 267 2 6 20 759
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 1 229 0 0 1 445
Total Working Papers 17 41 182 24,152 68 203 880 98,706


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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 1 1 2 17 1 3 5 763
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 0 2 10 1,235 1 3 32 3,572
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 3 6 19 1,696 4 12 62 5,216
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 2 2 28 3,992 5 9 60 19,496
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 1 4 35 4,218 1 9 88 13,002
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 0 3 10 121 1 8 35 510
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 2 6 28 6,255 6 22 86 17,820
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 5 1,903 3 7 21 4,972
A Theory of Rational Addiction 3 11 63 7,401 13 34 177 28,549
A Theory of Social Interactions 2 5 18 1,914 7 18 75 5,586
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 0 1 13 808 0 3 36 2,703
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 4 376 0 1 6 1,144
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 1 3 17 1,226 2 7 41 3,214
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 2 6 26 3,303
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 2 9 47 1,787 5 23 117 5,179
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 1 778 2 9 27 2,213
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 10 14 63 4,482 23 50 266 15,799
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 10 22 107 11,456
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 46 1 2 11 801
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 2 5 286 0 2 14 806
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 3 205 0 0 3 818
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 3 202 1 2 14 868
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 1 1 5 400 4 6 29 1,222
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 4 7 24 1,303
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 3 6 29 1,940 9 17 87 4,732
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 2 17 863
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 0 1 1 5 0 1 2 34
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 0 0 2 97 0 0 2 460
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States 1 1 1 151 2 3 6 313
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 7 62 0 2 20 207
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 1 260 1 1 5 692
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 23
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 18
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * 0 0 1 181 0 0 1 436
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 2 3 9 298 5 8 23 632
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 3 5 45 3,578 19 41 238 11,409
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 2 2 9 1,563 7 13 54 4,433
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 4 28 2,291 5 23 95 6,895
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 2 74 0 3 10 1,001
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 3 4 52 4,243 11 38 201 10,668
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 1 2 19 1,793 3 9 52 3,652
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 4 9 36 1,662 6 20 84 3,600
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 2 31 0 1 6 123
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 0 12 53 2,277 1 23 121 5,569
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 1 1 3 318 1 1 11 844
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 0 0 3 372 0 1 8 1,103
On the Economics of Climate Policy 1 2 3 146 1 4 9 325
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 2 7 48 2,829 9 29 152 7,139
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 8 200 1 5 22 563
Population and Economic Growth 0 1 9 1,087 0 4 27 2,837
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 4 45 0 3 9 94
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 1 4 9 709 1 5 17 1,468
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 0 2 2 116
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 3 6 16 807 5 11 26 2,114
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment 1 2 2 232 1 3 4 639
Selling the Right to Immigrate 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 143
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 126 0 2 4 339
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 2 6 25 1,791 5 21 106 5,317
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 4 6 27 485 8 16 82 2,888
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 0 3 116 0 1 11 915
The Family and the State 0 2 4 81 1 5 17 1,607
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 1 2 147 0 2 9 394
The Future of Law and Economics 0 1 3 95 0 1 7 232
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 1 3 9 134 2 6 28 431
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 1 302 0 0 2 627
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 1 5 374 2 2 16 1,211
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 3 8 715 1 7 39 2,360
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 32 98 389 10,705
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 2 3 10 31 5 9 27 74
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 0 0 0 18 1 3 5 787
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 0 1 2 29 0 1 4 70
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 67 171 885 71,831 242 714 3,435 252,576
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 38 83 368 4,722
An Economic Analysis of the Family 0 1 6 49 0 3 12 105
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 3 9 31 3,182
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 1 6 123 1,227
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 110 291 1,727 3,652
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 27 100 645 8,659
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 58 137 486 18,776
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 2 14 2,093
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 10 26 85 2,249
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 18 43 188 3,284
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 148
Total Books 0 1 6 49 267 701 3,685 48,118


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 0 0 8 536 5 7 38 1,928
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 4 665 2 3 21 1,897
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 1 1 7 394 3 4 12 916
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 0 7 297 0 2 13 470
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 3 3 11 626 3 5 15 929
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 10 31 134 2,315 49 158 653 8,227
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 6 117 0 0 7 198
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 1 1 4 313 1 2 6 412
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 0 0 9 131 0 0 9 216
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 1 1 4 294 2 3 6 423
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 2 3 17 1,789 6 21 93 7,042
Human Capital Revisited 4 8 55 825 12 21 96 1,537
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 3 6 19 1,250 4 11 47 3,468
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 12 424 7 14 63 1,234
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 1 2 18 374 2 9 63 1,001
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 2 6 23 256 4 9 37 476
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 5 13 33 677 9 22 51 1,081
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 3 12 43 489 6 28 98 1,069
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 5 10 42 1,129 14 32 101 2,189
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 1 4 10 104 8 16 66 509
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 5 11 50 1,882 9 20 116 3,579
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 2 5 35 786 3 10 68 1,599
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 0 2 20 597 1 4 39 1,442
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 3 7 22 1,000 4 9 35 1,549
Rates of Return from College Education 2 2 12 734 2 2 17 1,210
Rates of Return from College Education 2 2 13 303 4 5 20 488
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 2 3 7 448 2 3 8 630
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 0 5 202 0 0 13 325
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 2 5 19 361 2 8 32 606
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 2 12 28 849 5 25 56 1,222
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 0 0 3 76 0 0 3 116
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 0 4 117 0 0 6 198
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 0 4 171 0 2 7 308
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 1 10 376 3 8 39 927
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 1 9 217 0 1 12 366
Underinvestment in College Education? 2 2 11 467 2 3 14 672
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Total Chapters 65 155 718 21,591 174 468 1,982 50,476


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