| Human capital: A theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education GS Becker University of Chicago press, 2009 | 63805 | 2009 |
| A treatise on the family: Enlarged edition GS Becker Harvard university press, 1993 | 37196* | 1993 |
| Crime and punishment: An economic approach GS Becker Journal of political economy 76 (2), 169-217, 1968 | 26557 | 1968 |
| A Theory of the Allocation of Time GS Becker The economic journal 75 (299), 493-517, 1965 | 18622 | 1965 |
| The economics of discrimination GS Becker University of Chicago press, 2010 | 15829 | 2010 |
| Investment in human capital: A theoretical analysis GS Becker Journal of political economy 70 (5, Part 2), 9-49, 1962 | 15735 | 1962 |
| Creating capabilities: The human development approach MC Nussbaum Harvard University Press, 2011 | 10226 | 2011 |
| A theory of marriage: Part I GS Becker Journal of Political economy 81 (4), 813-846, 1973 | 7403* | 1973 |
| A theory of competition among pressure groups for political influence GS Becker The quarterly journal of economics 98 (3), 371-400, 1983 | 7304 | 1983 |
| De gustibus non est disputandum GJ Stigler, GS Becker The american economic review 67 (2), 76-90, 1977 | 7109 | 1977 |
| A theory of social interactions GS Becker Journal of political economy 82 (6), 1063-1093, 1974 | 6723 | 1974 |
| A theory of rational addiction GS Becker, KM Murphy Journal of political Economy 96 (4), 675-700, 1988 | 5962 | 1988 |
| An economic analysis of fertility GS Becker Demographic and economic change in developed countries, 209-240, 1960 | 5916 | 1960 |
| On the interaction between the quantity and quality of children GS Becker, HG Lewis Journal of political Economy 81 (2, Part 2), S279-S288, 1973 | 5103 | 1973 |
| Human capital and the rise and fall of families GS Becker, N Tomes Journal of labor economics 4 (3, Part 2), S1-S39, 1986 | 4647 | 1986 |
| Human capital, effort, and the sexual division of labor GS Becker Journal of labor economics 3 (1, Part 2), S33-S58, 1985 | 4208 | 1985 |
| Human capital, fertility, and economic growth GS Becker, KM Murphy, R Tamura Journal of political economy 98 (5, Part 2), S12-S37, 1990 | 4121 | 1990 |
| Law enforcement, malfeasance, and compensation of enforcers GS Becker, GJ Stigler The Journal of Legal Studies 3 (1), 1-18, 1974 | 3442 | 1974 |
| An equilibrium theory of the distribution of income and intergenerational mobility GS Becker, N Tomes Journal of political Economy 87 (6), 1153-1189, 1979 | 3343 | 1979 |
| Nobel lecture: The economic way of looking at behavior GS Becker Journal of political economy 101 (3), 385-409, 1993 | 3330 | 1993 |
