Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist.

Law of migrations : a new spatial economic theory ?

Law of migrations: a new spatial economic theory? INTRODUCTION

Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker*

Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker Gary Becker’s classic study, A Theory of the Allocation of Time, laid the analytical foundations for the study of household production and the allocation of time within the household. The analytical framework of household production theory developed in this paper remained a pillar of his later work on the economics of the family ...

Economic Theory of Fertility Behavior

A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage: Macromodel

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 S. Grossbard, The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1623-4_2 This chapter and the following are adapted from “A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage,” Economic Journal, Vol. 94, pp. 863–882, December 1984. While writing it I benefited from helpful comments from Gary Becker, Jerry Green (f...

A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility

We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human capital theory, we derive several novel results. In particular, we show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, m...