The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage: How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings

摘要

In the last three to four decades, there has been a virtual explosion of literature on the economics of the family household following the early contributions by Gary Becker (1973), Jacob Mincer (1962), and Paul Samuelson (1956). The author of this book has contributed significantly to this growth, both as a prolific producer of research papers and as the editor of a journal specializing in the field. The book itself is part memoire, dedicated to Gary Becker and giving some personal observations on the development of the Chicagoan tradition in this area, on the scholars who contributed to it and Grossbard's role in that, and part survey of virtually all of the published work done by Grossbard and her coauthors, from her earliest papers to some recent work soon to be published.