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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 1 14 2,882
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 2 1,006 1 2 10 2,413
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 3 14 904 3 9 51 2,856
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 2 11 0 0 3 1,971
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 1 9 397 2 7 42 918
A Theory of Rational Addiction 0 2 13 41 2 7 34 3,766
A Theory of Social Interactions 0 1 7 4,130 2 5 38 12,479
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 4 466 0 0 7 1,402
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 1,603 2 4 14 4,944
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 7 0 1 4 2,118
Autobiography 0 0 2 95 0 0 3 211
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 1 1 4 1,166 2 3 21 3,658
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 10
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 1,077
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 649 0 1 2 1,611
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 1 605 1 1 4 2,381
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 1 1 24 1,952
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 1 11 884 0 1 14 1,623
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 1 3 18 1,225 6 18 73 3,498
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 0 0 1 2 1 1 14 19
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 1 3 13 1,053 1 10 31 2,054
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 1 4 17 1,182
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 853
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 2 2 8 1,257
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 3 16 1 3 9 1,977
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 0 1 138 2,201
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 1 1 29 2 5 13 145
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 3 1,596 0 0 8 3,463
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 2 2,599 1 3 15 5,964
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 0 1 162 0 0 2 598
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 2 9 1 2 7 23
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 2 3 18 1,358
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 4 16 1 2 14 1,105
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 0 12 1 3 6 1,244
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 4 18 0 1 7 1,288
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 1 185 2 2 4 444
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 0 0 1 609 0 0 4 1,384
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 0 1 2 210 0 3 11 697
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 907
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 1 6 0 1 8 1,421
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 1,815
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 2 6 1,784 3 6 18 5,208
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 1 1 13 790 2 4 36 2,570
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 2 6 859
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 4 2 2 6 16
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 4 919 0 0 9 2,694
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 1 2 230 0 3 5 449
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 267 0 2 17 761
Total Working Papers 6 22 159 24,189 48 130 815 98,889


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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 0 0 1 17 0 0 4 763
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 1 2 12 1,238 5 7 29 3,580
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 1 2 20 1,703 5 10 60 5,233
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 4 6 25 4,001 7 14 55 19,516
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 1 5 31 4,227 4 17 77 13,025
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 0 4 10 125 1 9 33 520
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 0 2 20 6,258 2 9 68 17,830
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 1 1,903 1 1 16 4,974
A Theory of Rational Addiction 2 7 57 7,411 8 22 159 28,586
A Theory of Social Interactions 1 5 21 1,919 6 24 82 5,617
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 1 2 8 811 1 5 23 2,711
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 3 376 0 0 6 1,145
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 1 2 11 1,229 2 6 30 3,222
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 0 4 25 3,308
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 4 12 54 1,806 7 27 121 5,218
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 1 3 4 781 9 15 40 2,231
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 2 16 74 4,506 18 61 274 15,889
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 5 14 95 11,479
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 46 1 2 8 803
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 0 5 288 0 0 13 809
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 1 205 1 1 2 819
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 2 203 1 2 13 872
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 4 401 2 8 29 1,234
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 0 3 28 1,310
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 0 8 29 1,954 7 29 86 4,769
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 5 18 870
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 0 97 0 2 2 462
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States 0 0 1 151 0 0 4 313
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 6 63 0 0 17 209
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 1 260 1 2 6 694
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 2 2 3 20
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 0 6 298 1 4 24 639
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 2 6 25 3,586 7 38 177 11,465
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 1 5 13 1,569 4 16 61 4,456
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 2 17 2,294 2 12 69 6,910
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 1 74 1 3 10 1,004
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 4 13 47 4,260 14 45 178 10,723
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 1 2 16 1,796 4 8 47 3,664
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 2 4 31 1,667 5 15 75 3,617
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 0 31 1 2 5 125
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 1 2 38 2,284 4 11 95 5,593
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 0 0 2 318 0 3 10 847
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 1 1 3 373 1 3 8 1,107
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 3 146 0 3 11 328
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 3 10 45 2,847 6 30 138 7,189
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 2 200 1 3 17 567
Population and Economic Growth 1 2 8 1,089 1 3 23 2,843
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 3 45 0 0 8 94
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 0 0 5 709 1 6 16 1,475
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 1 1 3 117
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 8 807 0 0 15 2,115
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment 0 0 2 232 0 0 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 0 1 5 340
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 4 6 26 1,798 5 19 88 5,344
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 2 8 25 494 7 21 79 2,915
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 1 2 117 2 5 13 920
The Family and the State 1 3 5 84 2 6 16 1,615
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 0 2 148 1 1 10 398
The Future of Law and Economics 0 0 3 96 0 0 6 233
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 0 1 7 135 0 5 25 437
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 1 3 4 630
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 2 5 376 2 4 10 1,216
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 7 715 1 2 36 2,364
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 15 43 349 10,765
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 1 1 10 32 2 2 26 77
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 0 1 1 19 1 3 8 790
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 1 1 1 220
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 35
Una teoría de la distribución del tiempo 0 1 3 30 0 2 4 72
Unemployment in Europe and the United States 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 78
Voir La Vie De Façon Économique 0 0 1 17 3 3 5 57
Total Journal Articles 44 147 776 72,050 194 628 3,114 253,463
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 16 70 362 4,830
An Economic Analysis of the Family 1 2 5 51 1 2 14 111
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 6 12 42 3,204
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 1 13 93 1,245
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 193 433 1,438 4,206
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 75 169 645 8,874
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 25 92 505 18,935
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 2,095
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 24
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 7 21 91 2,277
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 17 34 173 3,325
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 148
Total Books 1 2 5 51 341 849 3,383 49,274


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 0 2 8 540 2 9 37 1,941
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 1 665 1 3 14 1,901
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 0 4 394 0 2 11 919
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 5 10 303 1 6 16 477
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 6 13 632 1 7 20 938
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 11 39 149 2,366 53 208 753 8,516
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 3 7 121 0 3 7 202
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 1 3 314 1 3 6 415
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 3 10 135 1 4 11 221
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 4 296 2 4 8 427
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 2 5 19 1,794 10 20 104 7,075
Human Capital Revisited 4 15 53 843 12 35 115 1,581
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 3 16 1,255 3 11 43 3,481
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 5 15 431 4 17 67 1,255
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 12 376 3 12 64 1,022
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 3 7 28 267 5 12 47 493
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 1 8 39 690 3 13 66 1,105
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 3 12 57 511 5 25 119 1,109
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 3 14 53 1,152 7 31 133 2,241
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 1 5 13 110 3 18 66 532
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 4 14 49 1,904 10 31 117 3,624
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 1 9 35 799 6 18 62 1,624
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 2 5 23 1,008 2 6 34 1,559
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 5 18 603 2 8 30 1,452
Rates of Return from College Education 1 5 15 310 2 8 25 499
Rates of Return from College Education 1 3 9 739 3 5 16 1,220
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 2 7 451 0 2 8 634
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 4 8 207 0 4 9 330
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 1 8 23 371 1 10 34 618
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 3 10 32 859 5 17 64 1,240
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 0 0 1 76 0 0 1 116
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 0 2 117 0 0 4 198
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 0 2 171 1 3 8 311
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 4 11 381 0 11 36 941
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 2 10 470 0 2 12 676
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 5 12 223 0 5 15 372
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 5
Total Chapters 42 212 771 21,884 151 575 2,186 51,284


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