04226nam 2200589Ia 450 991077857140332120231002161940.00-674-02066-910.4159/9780674020665(CKB)1000000000805673(StDuBDS)AH23050590(SSID)ssj0000262052(PQKBManifestationID)11937466(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262052(PQKBWorkID)10269692(PQKB)11518842(Au-PeEL)EBL3300743(CaPaEBR)ebr10331329(OCoLC)746938148(DE-B1597)571758(DE-B1597)9780674020665(MiAaPQ)EBC3300743(EXLCZ)99100000000080567319900622d1991 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA treatise on the family /Gary S. BeckerEnl. ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press19911 online resource (xii, 424 pages) illustrationsThis ed. originally published: 1991.0-674-90698-5 0-674-90699-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-409) and index.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 IndexImagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another. The consideration of the family from this perspective has profound theoretical and practical implications. For example, Becker's analysis of assortative mating can be used to study matching processes generally. Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian. The obligation of these scholars to take account of his work thus constitutes an important step in the unification of the social sciences. A Treatise on the Family will have an impact on public policy as well. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families. For example, social security taxes tend to reduce the amount of resources children give to their aged parents. The implications of these findings are obvious and far-reaching. With the publication of this extraordinary hook, the family moves to the forefront of the research agenda in the social sciences.FamiliesEconomic aspectsFamiliesFamiliesEconomic aspects.Families.306.85Becker Gary S(Gary Stanley),1930-2014.118957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778571403321Treatise on the Family454856UNINA