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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814582403321

Autore

Becker Gary S (Gary Stanley), <1930->

Titolo

A treatise on the family / / Gary S. Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-674-02066-9

Edizione

[Enl. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.85

Soggetti

Families - Economic aspects

Families

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This ed. originally published: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-409) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface to the Enlarged Edition Introduction 1. Single-Person Households 2. Division of Labor in Households and Families Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets 4. Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets 5. The Demand for Children Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 6. Family Background and the Opportunities of Children 7. Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 8. Altruism in the Family 9. Families in Nonhuman Species 10. Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce 11. The Evolution of the Family Supplement: The Family and the State Bibliography Index