Many economic models of the family are based on a generic “person 1—person 2”
household or “parent—child” family, rather than their anatomically correct counterparts: sons …

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book
improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of …

The collection of chapters in the Handbook of Population and Family Economics and their
organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population …

Families and households provide the context in which important non-market transactions
between men and women take place. Partners in a marital or de facto union and their …

The family is distinguished from other social institutions, such as firms, by its crucial role in
the production and nurture of children and its rationale is ultimately to be found in the …

Pioneered by Gary Becker (1991), economic models of parenting behavior focus on how
parents garner, organize, and allocate resources—primarily effort, time, and money …

This collection of essays features the debate among neoclassical, institutionalist and
feminist theorists, providing an invaluable guide to the evolution of economic approaches to …

What can evolutionary biology tell us about male-female differences in preferences
concerning family matters? Might mothers be more solicitous toward offspring than fathers …

An institutional perspective emphasizes the fact that behavior is shaped by rules that
humans superimpose on their economic environment. In the context of the family, such rules …

Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family (1981) subjected individuals' decisions
about sex, marriage, childbearing, and childrearing to rational choice analysis. The …