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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, And The Value Of Women In Marriage––A Beckerian Approach

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  • Grossbard, Shoshana

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Gary Becker's theories of marriage were mentioned as one of the reasons why he was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 1992 and were emphasized by Becker: his first article on the family published in a major journal (Becker 1973) is a theory of marriage and the chapters on marriage in his influential Treatise on the Family (Becker 1981, 1991) come first. Becker's theoretical models of marriage all view marriages as small non-profit firms engaged in household production, thereby featuring one of the basic tenets of the New Home Economics that Becker pioneered with Jacob Mincer while both were at Columbia University in the 1960s (see Becker 1960, 1965; Mincer 1962, 1963).

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  • Grossbard, Shoshana, 2015. "Sex Ratios, Polygyny, And The Value Of Women In Marriage––A Beckerian Approach," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 81(1), pages 13-25, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:demeco:v:81:y:2015:i:1:p:13-25_4
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    1. Kota Ogasawara & Mizuki Komura, 2022. "Consequences of war: Japan’s demographic transition and the marriage market," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 35(3), pages 1037-1069, July.
    2. Leeson, Peter T. & Suarez, Paola A., 2017. "Child brides," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 40-61.
    3. Juan Carlos Campaña & José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal & José Alberto Molina & Jorge Velilla, 2024. "The shifters of intrahousehold decision-making in European countries," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 66(3), pages 1055-1101, March.

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    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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