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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 1 1 3 17 4 7 38 2,920
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 2 1,008 3 4 29 2,442
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 1 6 910 3 7 117 2,973
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 1 12 0 0 8 1,979
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 2 8 405 3 12 74 992
A Theory of Rational Addiction 3 5 17 58 10 20 80 3,846
A Theory of Social Interactions 0 1 5 4,135 2 4 71 12,550
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 3 469 1 1 9 1,411
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 2 1,605 1 2 30 4,974
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 8 0 1 26 2,144
Autobiography 0 0 1 96 0 0 3 214
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 4 1,170 1 2 43 3,701
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 1 1 2 12
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 3 18 2,399
Economics of Marital Instability 0 0 1 434 1 3 15 1,583
Erosion Control: Costs and Income Distribution Under Regulation, Tax and Subsidy 0 0 0 4 1 1 7 17
FERTILITY CHOICE IN A MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 1 2 7 31 1,983
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 1 1 2 886 2 3 18 1,641
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 2 3 20 1,245 11 20 92 3,590
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 1 1 2 4 2 2 18 37
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 0 2 10 1,063 0 3 39 2,093
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 0 1 21 1,203
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 863
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 2 18 0 3 20 1,997
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 1 2 19 1,276
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 3 32 0 6 31 176
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 2 10 33 2,234
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 1 1 1,597 3 5 27 3,490
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 3 4 2,603 2 7 34 5,998
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 162 0 0 8 606
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 0 1 8 1,180
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 2 11 1 1 16 39
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 2 3 16 1,374
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 3 19 2 4 26 1,131
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 1 13 0 1 12 1,256
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 3 21 1 2 23 1,311
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 0 185 0 2 8 452
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 0 0 0 609 0 0 15 1,399
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 1 2 4 214 1 2 20 717
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 914
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 2 3 23 1,838
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 1 1 7 2 3 12 1,433
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 0 3 1,787 3 11 55 5,263
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 0 0 8 798 0 3 50 2,620
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 0 1 13 413
The Family and the State 0 0 0 4 0 0 10 869
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 919 1 1 21 2,715
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 4 1 4 19 35
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 1 268 0 2 21 782
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 230 0 0 6 455
Total Working Papers 14 26 126 24,315 73 184 1,368 100,257


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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 0 0 0 17 0 1 6 769
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 2 5 11 1,249 11 24 67 3,647
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 4 20 1,723 3 10 89 5,322
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 0 8 17 4,018 2 42 87 19,603
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 3 9 38 4,265 8 23 147 13,172
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 0 3 11 136 1 10 49 569
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 5 10 43 6,301 14 40 163 17,993
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 1 6 1,909 0 2 25 4,999
A Theory of Rational Addiction 3 8 55 7,466 11 44 284 28,870
A Theory of Social Interactions 3 7 29 1,948 6 18 124 5,741
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 0 1 14 825 1 6 48 2,759
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 2 378 0 0 12 1,157
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 0 4 9 1,238 1 5 55 3,277
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 2 2 45 3,353
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 6 19 70 1,876 11 47 232 5,450
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 1 1 5 786 1 3 48 2,279
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 15 24 153 4,659 31 78 635 16,524
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life 0 0 0 18 0 1 23 143
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 0 0 0 370 10 30 119 11,598
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 3 49 0 1 23 826
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 0 3 291 1 2 20 829
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 0 205 0 1 12 831
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 4 207 2 3 26 898
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 3 404 1 2 23 1,257
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 2 2 21 1,331
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 1 3 28 1,982 5 15 109 4,878
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 3 19 889
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 38
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 0 0 1 98 0 0 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 1 3 13 222
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 0 260 0 0 47 741
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy 0 0 0 8 1 1 8 31
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture 0 0 0 5 1 1 4 24
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * 0 0 0 181 3 3 7 443
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 1 1 4 302 2 3 19 658
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 2 7 39 3,625 9 37 205 11,670
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3 10 24 1,593 9 27 81 4,537
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 2 3 18 2,312 3 5 68 6,978
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 6 80 1 7 63 1,067
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 8 14 86 4,346 32 66 346 11,069
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 2 5 13 1,809 36 43 102 3,766
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 8 18 34 1,701 25 52 119 3,736
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 3 34 0 0 13 138
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 5 9 29 2,313 9 22 108 5,701
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 0 0 4 322 0 0 18 865
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 2 2 11 384 2 3 33 1,140
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 1 1 8 661
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children 5 11 49 2,896 16 44 194 7,383
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 4 204 3 5 19 586
Population and Economic Growth 0 0 2 1,091 1 3 16 2,859
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 1 46 0 1 9 103
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 0 0 2 711 1 2 26 1,501
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 0 0 8 125
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 2 5 812 1 5 23 2,138
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 0 7 150
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 127 1 2 4 344
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 2 5 14 1,812 5 18 83 5,427
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 1 3 19 513 3 10 71 2,986
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 0 2 119 0 3 23 943
The Family and the State 0 0 0 84 0 0 13 1,628
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 1 2 150 1 3 10 408
The Future of Law and Economics 1 1 3 99 1 3 14 247
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 0 1 7 142 2 3 43 480
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 2 3 9 639
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 2 9 385 0 3 38 1,254
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 1 5 720 3 6 65 2,429
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 3 8 127 10,892
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 0 1 5 37 1 4 33 110
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 1 1 4 23 2 2 12 802
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 0 0 7 227
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 37
Una teoría de la distribución del tiempo 0 1 5 35 0 4 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 0 1 9 66
Total Journal Articles 83 206 942 72,992 306 823 4,690 258,153
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 21 89 477 5,307
An Economic Analysis of the Family 0 0 3 54 3 7 25 136
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 4 9 51 3,255
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 5 11 57 1,302
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 172 600 3,000 7,206
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 43 139 742 9,616
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 25 139 632 19,567
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 5 38 2,133
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 34
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 8 26 142 2,419
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 2 19 234 3,559
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 165
Total Books 0 0 3 54 285 1,046 5,425 54,699


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 4 6 14 554 6 18 71 2,012
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 4 669 1 6 46 1,947
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 1 1 4 398 2 10 35 954
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 21
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 1 9 641 1 2 19 957
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 2 2 5 308 3 4 16 493
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 12 33 149 2,515 35 150 768 9,284
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 5 126 0 1 21 223
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 8 322 0 2 16 431
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 7 228
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 0 10 306 0 0 16 443
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 7 11 42 1,836 74 113 310 7,385
Human Capital Revisited 4 10 47 890 9 30 141 1,722
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 1 3 7 1,262 3 10 66 3,547
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 1 5 436 4 7 76 1,331
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 4 6 20 396 7 18 80 1,102
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 2 4 25 292 3 6 56 549
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 2 6 31 721 3 12 68 1,173
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 4 11 45 556 10 26 134 1,243
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 4 10 49 1,201 10 30 149 2,390
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 4 14 41 151 10 70 182 714
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 3 11 47 1,951 7 18 101 3,725
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 4 5 28 827 5 13 92 1,716
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 3 5 19 622 8 11 52 1,504
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 0 3 23 1,031 3 8 48 1,607
Rates of Return from College Education 0 1 15 754 0 4 31 1,251
Rates of Return from College Education 3 5 11 321 4 8 27 526
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 1 2 7 214 2 3 18 348
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 1 8 459 0 2 15 649
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 2 5 20 391 6 10 44 662
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 2 8 40 899 3 10 69 1,309
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 1 1 1 77 1 1 10 126
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 1 2 3 120 1 2 16 214
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 1 1 1 172 2 2 29 340
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 2 6 387 9 17 73 1,014
Underinvestment in College Education? 1 2 9 479 1 2 19 695
Underinvestment in College Education? 3 3 7 230 4 4 17 389
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 12
Total Chapters 78 176 766 22,650 237 630 2,952 54,236


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