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A General Equilibrium Model of 'Efficient' Unions 0 0 0 2 1 1 6 19
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 1 2 4 18 7 11 43 2,927
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 0 2 1,008 5 10 34 2,449
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 0 2 5 911 6 12 116 2,982
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good 0 0 1 12 4 4 12 1,983
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 3 5 11 409 8 13 77 1,002
A Theory of Rational Addiction 4 12 25 67 10 28 93 3,864
A Theory of Social Interactions 2 2 7 4,137 3 9 68 12,557
A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort 0 0 3 469 8 9 17 1,419
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 1 8 2 2 27 2,146
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 2 1,605 7 8 36 4,981
Autobiography 0 0 1 96 3 3 5 217
Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children 0 0 4 1,170 9 13 52 3,713
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 1 5 4 4 8 1,085
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 13
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 1 606 2 3 18 2,401
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 0 649 2 2 9 1,620
Economics of Marital Instability 0 0 1 434 5 7 19 1,589
Erosion Control: Costs and Income Distribution Under Regulation, Tax and Subsidy 0 0 0 4 3 5 11 21
FERTILITY CHOICE IN A MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 1 3 6 34 1,987
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 1 1 886 1 3 18 1,642
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis 0 2 19 1,245 11 27 104 3,606
Fear and the response to terrorism: an economic analysis 0 1 2 4 1 3 19 38
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 0 0 10 1,063 5 7 44 2,100
Fertility and Economy 0 0 0 1 1 3 23 1,206
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 863
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 0 1 3 4 21 1,279
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 2 18 3 3 22 2,000
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 3 32 3 3 31 179
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 0 0 6 5 7 36 2,239
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 4 2,603 3 6 35 6,002
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 1 1,597 4 11 32 3,498
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 162 1 1 9 607
Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance 0 0 0 2 4 4 12 1,184
On the Economics of Climate Policy 0 0 2 11 3 4 19 42
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 0 2 1 4 16 1,376
On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 0 0 3 19 0 3 22 1,132
Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs 0 0 1 13 3 3 13 1,259
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 0 0 2 21 0 1 19 1,311
Reversal of Misfortune: Parodox in Optimization Across Contingencies 0 0 0 185 2 2 10 454
Status, Lotteries, and Inequality 1 1 1 610 3 3 17 1,402
Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End 1 2 4 215 2 4 20 720
The Allocation of Effort, Specific Human Capital, and Differences Between Men and Women in Earnings and Occupations 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 914
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 0 0 3 7 10 27 1,846
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 1 2 2 8 4 7 17 1,438
The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 0 1 3 1,788 1 7 47 5,267
The Economic Way of Looking at Life 1 1 8 799 6 6 49 2,626
The Effect of the State on the Family 0 0 0 5 1 2 11 415
The Family and the State 0 0 0 4 3 3 13 872
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 1 1 5 2 4 22 38
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 0 0 0 919 2 4 23 2,718
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 0 0 230 3 3 8 458
The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care 0 1 1 269 2 3 21 785
Total Working Papers 14 38 139 24,339 183 307 1,484 100,491


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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis 0 0 0 17 0 0 6 769
A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price 1 3 11 1,250 8 23 75 3,659
A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 3 6 23 1,728 22 31 105 5,350
A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad 3 4 20 4,022 12 18 97 19,619
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence 5 9 36 4,271 16 28 144 13,192
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility 0 0 9 136 3 7 46 575
A Theory of Marriage: Part I 3 12 45 6,308 12 34 164 18,013
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 1 1 5 1,910 3 3 24 5,002
A Theory of Rational Addiction 5 12 61 7,475 17 41 277 28,900
A Theory of Social Interactions 1 9 31 1,954 14 29 127 5,764
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology 1 1 14 826 4 8 50 2,766
Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology: Reply 0 0 2 378 0 0 12 1,157
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability 1 4 12 1,242 5 10 49 3,286
An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 0 0 0 19 5 9 47 3,360
An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility 4 15 70 1,885 12 34 223 5,473
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children 1 2 6 787 6 8 48 2,286
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 8 39 151 4,683 58 117 639 16,610
Cross-Cultural Differences in Family and Sexual Life 0 0 0 18 5 5 26 148
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 0 0 0 370 15 50 143 11,638
Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government 0 0 3 49 2 4 26 830
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace 0 0 3 291 0 1 19 829
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga 0 0 0 205 3 3 14 834
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness 0 0 3 207 4 6 28 902
Explaining the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 2 2 5 406 5 7 29 1,263
Family Economics and Macro Behavior 0 0 0 69 3 7 23 1,336
Fertility Choice in a Model of Economic Growth 0 1 22 1,982 8 14 98 4,887
Fertility and the Economy 0 0 0 0 1 3 19 891
George Joseph Stigler. January 11,1911 - December 1,1991 0 0 0 5 1 1 5 39
George Joseph Stigler: January 17, 1911-December 1, 1991 0 0 1 98 4 5 15 478
Growing human capital investment in China compared to falling investment in the United States 0 0 3 154 2 2 12 326
Habits, Addictions, and Traditions 0 0 2 65 0 2 13 223
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective 0 0 0 260 0 0 46 741
Happiness, Income and Economic Policy 0 0 0 8 1 2 9 32
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 24
Health and Human Capital: The Inaugural T.W. Schultz Lecture * 0 0 0 181 2 5 8 445
Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions -super-1 1 2 3 303 3 5 20 661
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 2 9 44 3,632 16 38 209 11,699
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 1 4 21 1,594 8 18 75 4,546
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 2 17 2,312 5 11 69 6,986
Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations 0 0 5 80 1 2 62 1,068
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 9 21 88 4,359 21 71 339 11,108
Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers 4 8 19 1,815 7 46 106 3,776
Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection 4 18 42 1,711 13 54 141 3,765
NET NEUTRALITY AND CONSUMER WELFARE 0 0 2 34 1 2 13 140
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior 2 13 27 2,321 10 34 108 5,726
Old-Age Longevity and Mortality-Contingent Claims 0 0 2 322 1 2 17 867
On the Economics of Capital Punishment 0 4 13 386 4 8 36 1,146
On the Economics of Climate Policy 1 1 2 148 3 4 10 338
On the Economics of the Family: Reply to a Skeptic 0 0 0 216 0 1 8 661
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children 8 16 51 2,907 20 55 213 7,422
On the Relevance of the New Economics of the Family 0 0 3 204 1 4 19 587
Population and Economic Growth 0 0 1 1,091 1 2 15 2,860
Preference Formation within Families 0 0 1 46 0 0 9 103
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs 0 0 2 711 2 3 27 1,503
REVERSAL OF MISFORTUNE WHEN PROVIDING FOR ADVERSITY 0 0 0 11 2 2 10 127
Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 1 1 6 813 3 5 25 2,142
Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation: Comment 0 0 0 232 1 1 5 644
Selling the Right to Immigrate 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 151
Social Consumption: The World of Veblen Revisited 0 0 1 127 4 5 8 348
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 2 7 15 1,817 30 45 109 5,467
The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference 2 4 19 516 6 11 69 2,994
The Equilibrium Distribution of Income and the Market for Status 0 0 2 119 3 3 24 946
The Family and the State 0 0 0 84 1 2 14 1,630
The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Reply 0 0 2 150 0 1 10 408
The Future of Law and Economics 0 1 2 99 1 2 12 248
The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital 0 0 5 142 4 7 42 485
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women 0 0 0 302 1 3 10 640
The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs 1 2 8 387 6 7 39 1,261
The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality 1 2 7 722 4 10 68 2,436
The economics of crime 0 0 0 0 9 17 101 10,906
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys 2 3 8 40 3 5 33 114
Toward a More General Theory of Regulation: Comment 0 1 4 23 0 3 13 803
U.S. and Canadian Income Maintenance Programs: Comments 0 0 0 34 2 3 9 230
UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 38
Una teoría de la distribución del tiempo 0 0 4 35 1 1 14 88
Unemployment in Europe and the United States 0 0 0 17 2 2 3 81
Voir La Vie De Façon Économique 0 0 1 18 2 3 12 69
Total Journal Articles 80 239 965 73,148 457 1,018 4,806 258,865
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A Treatise on the Family 0 0 0 0 31 70 477 5,356
An Economic Analysis of the Family 0 1 4 55 1 6 28 139
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 0 6 16 57 3,267
Human Capital 0 0 0 0 6 18 66 1,315
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, First Edition 0 0 0 0 138 411 2,738 7,445
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 0 0 0 50 121 667 9,694
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 0 0 20 68 604 19,610
The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 4 37 2,135
The Economic Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 34
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior 0 0 0 0 6 19 140 2,430
The Economics of Discrimination 0 0 0 0 13 17 218 3,574
Uncommon Sense 0 0 0 0 2 2 19 167
Total Books 0 1 4 55 275 752 5,060 55,166


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Marriage 0 6 15 556 14 24 86 2,030
A Theory of Marriage: Part II 2 2 6 671 4 5 44 1,951
A Theory of the Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 2 4 399 2 6 35 958
Accounting for the Growth of Government 0 0 0 0 10 10 17 31
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 0 8 641 1 2 17 958
Age, Earnings, Wealth, and Human Capital 0 2 3 308 2 5 15 495
An Economic Analysis of Fertility 6 21 136 2,524 32 100 728 9,349
Appendix A, Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 1 1 4 127 2 2 21 225
Appendix A: Sources and Methods, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 0 0 7 322 3 3 18 434
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 1 1 137 1 2 8 230
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 9 306 1 1 16 444
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 4 19 51 1,848 31 122 342 7,433
Human Capital Revisited 5 12 49 898 12 27 141 1,740
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 0 2 7 1,263 4 10 65 3,554
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth 0 1 4 436 3 8 68 1,335
Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children 2 8 20 400 11 25 89 1,120
Introduction to the First Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 1 3 21 293 5 9 51 555
Introduction to the First Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 2 7 30 726 5 12 68 1,182
Introduction to the Second Edition of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education 0 9 38 561 6 25 113 1,258
Introduction to the Second Edition, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 3 11 47 1,208 8 24 138 2,404
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis 2 10 44 157 27 47 199 751
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 1 4 42 1,952 8 16 98 3,734
Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings 0 5 24 828 9 16 92 1,727
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 4 14 623 15 23 58 1,519
Investment in Human Capital: Rates of Return 1 2 22 1,033 8 12 54 1,616
Rates of Return from College Education 1 5 10 323 3 8 27 530
Rates of Return from College Education 0 0 14 754 1 1 29 1,252
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 1 6 214 1 3 18 349
Rates of Return from High School Education and Trends over Time 0 0 7 459 0 1 14 650
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, Third Edition 0 3 14 392 2 9 38 665
Summary and Conclusions, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition 1 3 34 900 1 5 61 1,311
Synthesis and Further Applications of the Empirical Analysis 0 1 1 77 3 4 12 129
The Allocation of Goods Over the Life Cycle 0 1 3 120 1 4 17 217
The Allocation of Time Over the Life Cycle 0 1 1 172 5 9 33 347
The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge 0 1 5 387 3 12 68 1,017
Underinvestment in College Education? 0 1 8 479 1 2 17 696
Underinvestment in College Education? 1 4 7 231 2 6 15 391
Working with Jacob Mincer: Reminiscences of Columbia’s Labor Workshop 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 13
Total Chapters 34 153 716 22,725 248 601 2,938 54,600


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