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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 4 14 2 3 14 2,884
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 3 13 904 3 9 52 2,859
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 2 1,006 1 2 11 2,414
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 2 11 0 0 3 1,971
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 1 2 9 398 6 9 45 924
A Theory of Rational Addiction 1 2 11 42 4 9 31 3,770
A Theory of Social Interactions 0 0 7 4,130 6 10 41 12,485
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 3 466 0 0 6 1,402
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 2,118
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 1,603 0 2 14 4,944
Autobiography 0 0 2 95 1 1 4 212
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 4 1,166 1 3 21 3,659
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 1,077
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 10
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 2 5 2,382
Economics of Marital Instability 0 0 0 433 0 0 0 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 1 22 1,952
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 11 884 0 0 13 1,623
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 0 2 18 1,225 0 12 68 3,498
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 0 0 1 2 0 1 11 19
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 0 2 12 1,053 1 5 31 2,055
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 0 3 16 1,182
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 853
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 1 3 9 1,258
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 1 3 16 0 2 9 1,977
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 1 1 29 1 6 13 146
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 1 1 99 2,202
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 2 2,599 0 1 15 5,964
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 0 3 1,596 1 1 9 3,464
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 1 162 0 0 2 598
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 1,172
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 2 9 0 1 6 23
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 1 3 17 1,359
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 4 16 2 3 15 1,107
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 0 12 0 3 6 1,244
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 3 18 1 1 7 1,289
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 1 185 0 2 3 444
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 0 0 1 609 1 1 5 1,385
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 0 0 2 210 1 3 11 698
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 0 8 1,421
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 1,816
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 2 7 1,785 8 12 25 5,216
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 1 2 9 791 4 7 33 2,574
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 1 1 4 401
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 0 2 6 16
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 4 919 0 0 7 2,694
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 2 230 0 2 5 449
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 1 1 1 268 3 3 19 764
Total Working Papers 5 19 150 24,194 53 138 776 98,942


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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 0 2 9 1,238 2 9 25 3,582
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 1 20 1,703 6 13 60 5,239
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 0 5 21 4,001 1 13 51 19,517
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 1 3 31 4,228 6 18 76 13,031
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 2 5 11 127 6 14 34 526
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 3 3 21 6,261 7 13 70 17,837
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 1 1 2 1,904 1 2 16 4,975
A Theory of Rational Addiction 1 5 50 7,412 12 24 150 28,598
A Theory of Social Interactions 2 5 22 1,921 10 23 90 5,627
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 1 3 8 812 3 7 23 2,714
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 2 376 0 0 5 1,145
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 1 2 11 1,230 4 8 30 3,226
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 3 5 27 3,311
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 4 13 57 1,810 14 34 130 5,232
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 1 4 781 3 15 42 2,234
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 6 12 73 4,512 32 69 282 15,921
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life 0 0 0 18 1 1 3 121
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 0 0 0 370 9 16 93 11,488
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 46 1 3 8 804
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 0 205 1 2 2 820
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 2 203 0 2 11 872
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 4 401 0 6 27 1,234
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 1 3 27 1,311
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 2 6 31 1,956 11 29 92 4,780
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 5 17 871
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 1 1 5 314
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 6 63 0 0 14 209
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 1 260 1 2 6 695
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 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 2 2 8 300 2 4 24 641
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 1 4 22 3,587 13 32 176 11,478
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 1 3 12 1,570 5 15 59 4,461
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 17 2,294 2 8 66 6,912
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 0 74 0 2 8 1,004
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 6 14 48 4,266 15 42 180 10,738
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 0 2 15 1,796 1 7 47 3,665
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 1 5 30 1,668 4 16 74 3,621
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 0 31 0 1 5 125
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 5 7 33 2,289 10 20 87 5,603
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 1 1 3 319 1 4 11 848
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 0 1 3 373 1 2 8 1,108
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 3 146 0 1 10 328
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 4 9 45 2,851 10 27 134 7,199
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 1 1 2 201 1 4 14 568
Population and Economic Growth 0 1 8 1,089 0 2 21 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 0 5 15 1,475
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 0 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 1 1 2 144
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 126 0 0 5 340
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 3 9 27 1,801 8 21 89 5,352
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 3 9 26 497 5 17 77 2,920
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 0 2 117 0 3 12 920
The Family and the State 0 2 5 84 0 4 16 1,615
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 0 2 148 0 1 8 398
The Future of Law and Economics 0 0 3 96 1 1 7 234
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 1 2 7 136 2 5 24 439
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 0 2 3 630
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 3 5 377 1 5 10 1,217
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 6 715 0 2 29 2,364
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 14 40 325 10,779
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 0 1 9 32 3 5 28 80
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 0 0 1 19 0 1 8 790
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 0 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 0 3 30 0 1 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 0 17 0 3 3 57
Total Journal Articles 54 144 759 72,104 237 647 3,064 253,700
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 17 53 346 4,847
An Economic Analysis of the Family 0 1 4 51 0 1 13 111
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 0 12 41 3,204
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 1 7 85 1,246
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 239 554 1,511 4,445
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 71 183 626 8,945
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 34 93 501 18,969
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 2,096
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 24
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 6 19 87 2,283
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 15 41 171 3,340
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 148
Total Books 0 1 4 51 384 966 3,397 49,658


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 1 1 7 541 1 5 33 1,942
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 0 0 1 665 3 6 17 1,904
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 0 3 394 1 3 11 920
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 4 12 632 0 5 19 938
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 2 6 10 305 2 7 16 479
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 10 32 145 2,376 37 152 743 8,553
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 2 5 7 123 2 5 7 204
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 1 3 314 0 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 1 3 8 136 1 4 9 222
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 0 4 8 427
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 0 3 16 1,794 3 18 95 7,078
Human Capital Revisited 4 13 48 847 8 28 106 1,589
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 1 4 15 1,256 2 10 39 3,483
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 1 4 13 432 4 15 60 1,259
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 0 0 12 376 4 13 64 1,026
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 1 8 25 268 4 14 46 497
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 2 7 39 692 3 10 67 1,108
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 5 14 57 516 18 36 124 1,127
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 4 15 55 1,156 8 30 136 2,249
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 2 4 14 112 14 25 72 546
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 3 14 49 1,907 6 28 115 3,630
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 4 9 34 803 6 16 61 1,630
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 2 6 22 1,010 2 7 32 1,561
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 4 8 19 607 5 12 32 1,457
Rates of Return from College Education 1 5 13 311 1 6 23 500
Rates of Return from College Education 0 2 9 739 0 4 15 1,220
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 1 4 6 208 1 4 7 331
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 1 7 451 0 1 8 634
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 5 10 25 376 6 12 36 624
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 6 13 38 865 6 18 69 1,246
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 3 198
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 0 2 171 0 3 8 311
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 4 10 382 7 14 39 948
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 1 8 470 0 1 10 676
Underinvestment in College Education? 1 5 11 224 2 6 14 374
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5
Total Chapters 64 208 750 21,948 157 527 2,155 51,441


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