INTRODUCTION Like all social scientists who study the family, I must position myself in relation to Gary Becker. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. endstream 3 In his academic writing, Profes- Ann Laquer Estin is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Pollak , R. A. taking the form of delayed marriage and reduced frequency of coition during marriage. ( 2003 ) Gary Becker’s contributions to family and household economics . A Theory of Marriage: Part I Gary S. Becker University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research I present in this paper the skeleton of a theory of marriage. Other things the same, couples desiring small families would marry later and have more abortions than the average couple. Clearly, Becker’s response follows the first path; the absence of serious, eco-nomic analysis of marriage was a regrettable oversight, that the paper intends to correct. Journal of Human Resources 23 (4) , (fall 1988 ), 462 – 487 . In this essay, it is argued that marriage is no exception and can be endobj So, in other words, in order to induce M and F to marry their maximum output as single persons must be at least as great as their combined income after marriage: (8) 2 0 obj
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Imagine 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. Gary S. Becker's 132 research works with 35,475 citations and 26,077 reads, including: A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility %PDF-1.4 Gary Becker’s research on economics has also been his life’s work and garnered him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 for “having extended the domain of the microeconomic Analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interactions, including non-market behavior. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on price theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman; and optimal sorting models based on optimal assignment models. I present in this paper the skeleton of a theory of marriage. endobj %PDF-1.5
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