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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Economics of the family
  name:
    name part: Browning, Martin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Chiappori, Pierre-André.
  name:
    name part: Weiss, Yoram.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
  table of contents: Introduction; Part I. Models of Household Behavior: 1. Facts; 2. The gains from marriage; 3. Preferences and decision making; 4. The collective model: a formal analysis; 5. Empirical issues for the collective model; 6. Uncertainty and dynamics in the collective model; Part II. Equilibrium Models of the Marriage Market: 7. Matching on the marriage market: theory; 8. Sharing the gains from marriage; 9. Investment in schooling and the marriage market; 10. An equilibrium model of marriage, fertility, and divorce; 11. Children and family structure.
  note: Martin Browning, University of Oxford, Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University, Yoram Weiss, Tel Aviv University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Families
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Households
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics
  classification: HQ519 .B76 2014
  classification: 306.85
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge surveys of economic literature
  identifier: 9780521791595 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521791596 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521795395 (paperback)
  identifier: 0521795397 (paperback)
  identifier: 2013035742
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130906
    record change date: 20151206102132.0
    record identifier: in00003465948