LEADER 04493nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910455442803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02066-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020665 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805673 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050590 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262052 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262052 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269692 035 $a(PQKB)11518842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300743 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331329 035 $a(OCoLC)746938148 035 $a(DE-B1597)571758 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020665 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805673 100 $a19900622d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA treatise on the family$b[electronic resource] /$fGary S. Becker 205 $aEnl. ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1991 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 424p.) 300 $aThis ed. originally published: 1991. 311 $a0-674-90698-5 311 $a0-674-90699-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 383-409) and index. 327 $aPreface 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 330 $aGary Becker sees the 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. Gary Becker won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics. 330 $bImagine 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. 606 $aFamilies$xEconomic aspects 606 $aFamilies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamilies$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aFamilies. 676 $a306.85 700 $aBecker$b Gary S$g(Gary Stanley),$f1930-$0118957 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455442803321 996 $aTreatise on the Family$9454856 997 $aUNINA