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Working Papers
2022
- Family Bargaining with Altruism
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2019
- Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children's Educational Outcomes
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group 
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
- The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
Also in Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2018)  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
2018
- How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group View citations (2)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) 
See also Journal Article How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (6) (2019)
2017
- Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group 
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (124)
See also Journal Article Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2016) View citations (118) (2016)
- Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group 
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (5)
2016
- Marriage Market Equilibrium
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
2015
- Unequal Bequests
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (4)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (4) IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (4) CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2015) View citations (4)
2013
- Allocating Household Time: When Does Efficiency Imply Specialization?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (26)
- Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (13)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (18)
- Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Description and Correlates
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (7)
See also Journal Article Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Description and Correlates, Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES (2015) (2015)
2011
- Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)
See also Journal Article Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization, Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES (2012) View citations (10) (2012)
- Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
See also Journal Article Family proximity, childcare, and women’s labor force attachment, Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2014) View citations (108) (2014)
2009
- Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents: Description and Correlates
Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations (26)
2008
- Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 
See also Journal Article Long-term care of the disabled elderly: do children increase caregiving by spouses?, Review of Economics of the Household, Springer (2009) View citations (25) (2009)
- Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (19)
See also Journal Article Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America (2008) View citations (19) (2008)
2007
- Bargaining Around the Hearth
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
- Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents
CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (60)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations (15)
See also Journal Article Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents, CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group (2007) View citations (59) (2007)
- Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (9)
See also Journal Article Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation *, CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group (2011) View citations (14) (2011)
- The American Family and Family Economics
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (99)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations (99)
See also Journal Article The American Family and Family Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2007) View citations (99) (2007)
2005
- Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (113)
2004
- Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
See also Journal Article Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2007) View citations (78) (2007)
2003
- Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2000) View citations (11)
2002
- An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
See also Journal Article An intergenerational model of domestic violence, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2004) View citations (68) (2004)
- Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)
See also Journal Article Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Springer (2003) View citations (50) (2003)
2001
- Efficiency in Marriage
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (51)
See also Journal Article Efficiency in Marriage, Review of Economics of the Household, Springer (2003) View citations (143) (2003)
1998
- Bargaining in Families
Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington View citations (3)
Also in Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics (1998) View citations (3)
- Notes on How Economists Think
JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations (3)
1997
- Risk Regulation
Washington University, Business, Law and Economics Center, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University View citations (1)
1994
- Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? Evidence from U.K. Child Benefit
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics View citations (40)
Also in Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington (1994) View citations (70)
1993
- Cultural and Economic Approaches to Fertility: A Proper Marriage or a Mesalliance?
Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington View citations (26)
Also in Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics (1993) View citations (42)
- Order and Inference in Quanlitative Response Models
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics
Also in Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington (1993) View citations (1)
1991
- Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market
Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington View citations (4)
Also in Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics (1991) View citations (22)
See also Journal Article Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (1993) View citations (803) (1993)
- The Cet-Ces-Generalized Leontief Variable Profit Function: An Application to Indian Agriculture
Working Papers, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University View citations (1)
1990
- DISTINGUISHED FLOOW: HOUTHAKKER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMICS
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics View citations (1)
See also Journal Article Distinguished Fellow: Houthakker's Contributions to Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (1990) View citations (3) (1990)
- THE LIKELIHOOD DOMINANCE CRITERION: A NEW APPROACH TO MODEL SELECTION
Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington
Also in Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics (1990) View citations (2)
See also Journal Article The likelihood dominance criterion: A new approach to model selection, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (1991) View citations (83) (1991)
- THE WEALTH MODEL: EFFICIENCY IN EDUCATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE FAMILY
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics
Also in Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington (1990) View citations (7)
- TWO-SEX DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics View citations (15)
Also in Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington (1990) View citations (12)
See also Journal Article Two-Sex Demographic Models, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (1990) View citations (15) (1990)
- WELFARE COMPARISONS AND SITUATIONS COMPARISONS
Working Papers, University of Washington, Department of Economics
Also in Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington, Department of Economics at the University of Washington (1990)
See also Journal Article Welfare comparisons and situation comparisons, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (1991) View citations (39) (1991)
Journal Articles
2019
- How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium
Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37, (1), 297 - 321 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium, Working Papers (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
2016
- Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (2), 79-102 View citations (118)
See also Working Paper Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing, Working Papers (2017) (2017)
2015
- Bargaining Power, Parental Caregiving, and Intergenerational Coresidence
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2015, 70, (6), 969-980 View citations (2)
- Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Description and Correlates
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, (117-118), 91-114 
See also Working Paper Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Description and Correlates, IZA Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (7) (2013)
2014
- Family proximity, childcare, and women’s labor force attachment
Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, (C), 72-90 View citations (108)
See also Working Paper Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (20) (2011)
2012
- Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, (105-106), 75-97 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (17) (2011)
- Individual and Household Time Allocation: Market Work, Household Work, and Parental Time
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, (105-106), 5-12 View citations (4)
2011
- Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation *
CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57, (2), 216-244 View citations (14)
See also Working Paper Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation, IZA Discussion Papers (2007) View citations (9) (2007)
2009
- Long-term care of the disabled elderly: do children increase caregiving by spouses?
Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7, (3), 323-339 View citations (25)
See also Working Paper Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?, NBER Working Papers (2008) (2008)
2008
- Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2008, 63, (6), S349-S358 View citations (19)
See also Working Paper Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents, IZA Discussion Papers (2008) View citations (19) (2008)
2007
- Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents
CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, (1), 69-96 View citations (59)
See also Working Paper Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents, CESifo Working Paper Series (2007) View citations (60) (2007)
- The American Family and Family Economics
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21, (2), 3-26 View citations (99)
See also Working Paper The American Family and Family Economics, IZA Discussion Papers (2007) View citations (99) (2007)
- Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?
Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25, (3), 475-512 View citations (78)
See also Working Paper Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas, NBER Working Papers (2004) View citations (22) (2004)
2006
- Marital Disruption, Step Children, and Transfers to the Elderly
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 2006, 142, (V), 103-106
2004
- An intergenerational model of domestic violence
Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17, (2), 311-329 View citations (68)
See also Working Paper An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence, NBER Working Papers (2002) View citations (4) (2002)
- Family structure and children’s educational outcomes: Blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions
Demography, 2004, 41, (4), 671-696 View citations (105)
2003
- Efficiency in Marriage
Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (3), 153-167 View citations (143)
See also Working Paper Efficiency in Marriage, NBER Working Papers (2001) View citations (51) (2001)
- Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics
Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (1), 111-141 View citations (50)
See also Working Paper Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics, NBER Working Papers (2002) View citations (16) (2002)
1999
- Pricing Biodiversity
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 38, (1), 1-19 View citations (28)
1998
- Imagined Risks and Cost-Benefit Analysis
American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 376-80 View citations (21)
- Simple inference in multinomial and ordered logit
Econometric Reviews, 1998, 17, (3), 289-299 View citations (6)
- The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998, 12, (1), 69-78 View citations (30)
1997
- Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit
Journal of Human Resources, 1997, 32, (3), 463-480 View citations (732)
1996
- Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996, 10, (4), 139-158 View citations (508)
1995
- Regulating Risks
Journal of Economic Literature, 1995, 33, (1), 179-191 View citations (5)
1994
- For Better or Worse: The Roles of Power in Models of Distribution within Marriage
American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 148-52 View citations (28)
- Noncooperative Bargaining Models of Marriage
American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 132-37 View citations (205)
1993
- Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market
Journal of Political Economy, 1993, 101, (6), 988-1010 View citations (803)
See also Working Paper Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market, Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington (1991) View citations (4) (1991)
1992
- Price-Augmenting Returns to Scale: An Application to Nonseparable Two-Stage Technologies
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992, 74, (2), 213-20 View citations (2)
1991
- The likelihood dominance criterion: A new approach to model selection
Journal of Econometrics, 1991, 47, (2-3), 227-242 View citations (83)
See also Working Paper THE LIKELIHOOD DOMINANCE CRITERION: A NEW APPROACH TO MODEL SELECTION, Discussion Papers in Economics at the University of Washington (1990) (1990)
- Welfare comparisons and situation comparisons
Journal of Econometrics, 1991, 50, (1-2), 31-48 View citations (39)
See also Working Paper WELFARE COMPARISONS AND SITUATIONS COMPARISONS, Working Papers (1990) (1990)
1990
- Distinguished Fellow: Houthakker's Contributions to Economics
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990, 4, (2), 141-56 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper DISTINGUISHED FLOOW: HOUTHAKKER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMICS, Working Papers (1990) View citations (1) (1990)
- Two-Sex Demographic Models
Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 98, (2), 399-420 View citations (15)
See also Working Paper TWO-SEX DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS, Working Papers (1990) View citations (15) (1990)
1989
- Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education
Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 97, (2), 398-419 View citations (58)
1988
- Tied Transfers and Paternalistic Preferences
American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 240-44 View citations (97)
1987
- Pooling International Consumption Data
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, 69, (1), 90-99 View citations (13)
- Specification and Estimation of Nonseparable Two-Stage Technologies: The Leontief CES and the Cobb-Douglas CES
Journal of Political Economy, 1987, 95, (2), 311-33 View citations (17)
1986
- A reformulation of the two-sex problem
Demography, 1986, 23, (2), 247-259 View citations (6)
- Do Parents Favor Boys?
International Economic Review, 1986, 27, (1), 33-54 View citations (56)
1985
- A Transaction Cost Approach to Families and Households
Journal of Economic Literature, 1985, 23, (2), 581-608 View citations (252)
1984
- The CES-Translog: Specification and Estimation of a New Cost Function
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1984, 66, (4), 602-07 View citations (17)
1983
- Dynamic and Stochastic Structure: An Analysis of Three Time Series of Household Budget Studies
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1983, 65, (2), 274-81 View citations (9)
- The treatment of `quality' in the cost of living index
Journal of Public Economics, 1983, 20, (1), 25-53 View citations (4)
1982
- Acyclic Collective Choice Rules
Econometrica, 1982, 50, (4), 931-43 View citations (27)
- Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny
Journal of Political Economy, 1982, 90, (1), 52-73 View citations (280)
1981
- Demographic Variables in Demand Analysis
Econometrica, 1981, 49, (6), 1533-51 View citations (258)
- The social cost of living index
Journal of Public Economics, 1981, 15, (3), 311-336 View citations (29)
1980
- Comparison of the Quadratic Expenditure System and Translog Demand Systems with Alternative Specifications of Demographic Effects
Econometrica, 1980, 48, (3), 595-612 View citations (69)
- Group Cost-of-Living Indexes
American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (2), 273-78 View citations (29)
1979
- Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Functions and the Theory of Social Choice
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1979, 93, (1), 73-90 View citations (23)
- Theory and Time Series Estimation of the Quadratic Expenditure System
Econometrica, 1979, 47, (5), 1231-47 View citations (72)
- Welfare Comparisons and Equivalence Scales
American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (2), 216-21 View citations (202)
1978
- Endogenous Tastes in Demand and Welfare Analysis
American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (2), 374-79 View citations (82)
- Estimation of Complete Demand Systems from Household Budget Data: The Linear and Quadratic Expenditure Systems
American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (3), 348-59 View citations (110)
- Welfare Evaluation and the Cost-of-Living Index in the Household Production Model
American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (3), 285-99 View citations (3)
1977
- Price Dependent Preferences
American Economic Review, 1977, 67, (2), 64-75 View citations (44)
- Reply: "Pollak and Wachter on the Household Production Approach."
Journal of Political Economy, 1977, 85, (5), 1083-86 View citations (3)
1976
- Habit formation and long-run utility functions
Journal of Economic Theory, 1976, 13, (2), 272-297 View citations (57)
- Interdependent Preferences
American Economic Review, 1976, 66, (3), 309-20 View citations (202)
1975
- Subindexes in the Cost of Living Index
International Economic Review, 1975, 16, (1), 135-50 View citations (12)
- The Relevance of the Household Production Function and Its Implications for the Allocation of Time
Journal of Political Economy, 1975, 83, (2), 255-77 View citations (195)
1973
- The Risk Independence Axiom
Econometrica, 1973, 41, (1), 35-39 View citations (2)
1972
- Generalized Separability
Econometrica, 1972, 40, (3), 431-53 View citations (26)
1971
- Additive Utility Functions and Linear Engel Curves
The Review of Economic Studies, 1971, 38, (4), 401-414 View citations (107)
1970
- Habit Formation and Dynamic Demand Functions
Journal of Political Economy, 1970, 78, (4), 745-63 View citations (378)
- Homogeneous von-Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Functions
International Economic Review, 1970, 11, (1), 117-30 View citations (2)
1969
- Conditional Demand Functions and Consumption Theory
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969, 83, (1), 60-78 View citations (105)
- Estimation of the Linear Expenditure System
Econometrica, 1969, 37, (4), 611-28 View citations (73)
1968
- Consistent Planning
The Review of Economic Studies, 1968, 35, (2), 201-208 View citations (195)
- On Second-Best National Saving and Game-Equilibrium Growth
The Review of Economic Studies, 1968, 35, (2), 185-199 View citations (697)
Books
1995
- Demand System Specification and Estimation
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (10)
- From Parent to Child
University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press View citations (93)
1989
- The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (55)
Chapters
2014
- Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010
A chapter in Human Capital in History: The American Record, 2014, pp 241-272 View citations (17)
1980
- Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility
A chapter in Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries, 1980, pp 81-150 View citations (45)
1975
- The Intertemporal Cost of Living Index
A chapter in Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume 4, number 1, 1975, pp 179-198 View citations (8)
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