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Gary S. Becker
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 229
Citations - 140384
Gary S. Becker is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 227 publications receiving 135183 citations. Previous affiliations of Gary S. Becker include Columbia University & EAFIT University.
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A Theory of Social Interactions
TL;DR: In this paper, a general treatment of social interactions into the modern theory of consumer demand is presented, where various characteristics of different persons are assumed to affect the utility functions of some persons, and the behavioral implications are systematically explored.
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Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
TL;DR: In this article, a model of growth departs from both the Malthusian and neoclassical approaches by including investments in human capital and assumes that rates of return on human capital investments rise, rather than, decline, as the stock of human capital increases, until the stock becomes large.
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Interaction between Quantity and Quality of Children
Gary S. Becker,H. Gregg Lewis +1 more
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An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utility maximization and the marriage market, is presented, and the implications of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data, primarily the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample.
economics of discrimination
TL;DR: The second edition of The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining.