Some of My Papers on the Economics of the Family
Links are supplied to copies of the paper found on JSTOR where these
areavailable.
There are also postscript files and/or pdf files for
downloading.
For some papers,I have used D.P. Story's AcroTeX
macros to write pdf files specially optimized for screen viewing.
Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids? with
Carl
Bergstrom, Journal of Bioeconomics, 1999
pdf file for
printing pdf
file for screen viewing Systems of Benevolent Utility
Functions, Journal
of Public Economic Theory, 1999
pdf file for printing
pdf
file for
screen viewing A Survey of Theories of the Family,
in Handbook
ofPopulationEconomics
vol 1a, 1997
pdf file Economics in a Family Way, Journal
of Economic
Literature
, vol 34, No. 4. (Dec. 1996), pp 1903-1934
pdf
file for printing pdf
file for screen viewing Income Prospects and Age of
Marriage, with Robert Schoeni, Population
Economics, 1996
pdf
file On the Evolution of Altruistic Ethical Rules for
Siblings, AmericanEconomic
Review, 1995
pdf file Marriage Markets and Bargaining Between Spouses
(1993)
This is a
short unpublished paper applying the theory of bargaining with outside
options to marriage. It later got included as part of Economics
in a Family Way. postscript
file
pdf file
Courtship as a Waiting Game, with Mark
Bagnoli, Journal
of PoliticalEconomy,
1993
JStorlink
pdf file Love and Spaghetti, Journal of
Economic
Perspectives
,1989
JStorlink
postscript
file
pdf file A Fresh Look at the Rotten Kid Theorem,
Journal
ofPoliticalEconomy
, 1989
JStorlink
postscript
file
pdf
file The Effects of Cohort Size on Marriage Markets in
Twentieth
Century
Sweden, with David Lam, 1989, in The Family, the Market,
and
the State in Industrialized Countries, edited by Tommy Bengtsson,
Oxford
University Press
postscript
file
pdf file Recovering Event Histories by Cubic Spline
Interpolation,
with David
Lam, Mathematical Population Studies, 1989
pdf
file
Unpublished Manuscripts
On the Economics of Polygyny
postscript
file
pdf file Primogeniture, Monogamy and Reproductive Success
in a
Stratified Society
postscript
file
pdf file The Two Sex Problem and the Marriage Squeeze,
with David
Lam, 1989
pdf
file Can Courtship be Cheatproof
pdf
file
- An Evolutionary View of
Family Conflict and Cooperation pdf
file
PPT
Slides for Claremont Lecture
Abstracts of Papers
- Economics
in a Family Way
- ASurvey
of Theories of the Family
(1994, to appear in the Handbook on Population Economics, edited byMark
Rosenzweig and Oded Stark - On
the Economicsof
Polygyny
(UM working paper, 1994) - Primogeniture,
Monogamy and Reproductive Success in a Stratified Society
(UM working paper,1994) - Courtshipas
a Waiting Game
(with Mark Bagnoli, Journal of Political Economy, 1993 - A
Fresh
Look at the Rotten Kid Theorem
(Journal of Political Economy, 1989) - TheEffects
of Cohort Size on Marriage Markets in Twentieth Century Sweden
- Does
MotherNature
Punish Rotten Kids, with Carl Bergstrom, Journal of Bioeconomics
,1999