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 FunctionsJournal 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 WayJournal 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  • Marriage Markets and Bargaining Between Spouses (1993) This is a short unpublished paper applying the theory of bargaining with outside options to marriage.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 SpaghettiJournal of Economic Perspectives ,1989
  •   JStorlink        postscript file        pdf  file
  • A Fresh Look at the Rotten Kid TheoremJournal 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    Unpublished Manuscripts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

    PPT Slides for Claremont Lecture

    Abstracts of Papers