A Treatise on the Family

Why read it

• You will see choices about marriage, children and divorce as decisions with costs and trade offs
• You will learn why people in a household often specialize in different tasks
• You will understand why the state regulates family life and a way of judging whether the rules help children and parents

Who it is for

• An economics student curious how the toolkit stretches to home life
• A couple trying to make sense of how they split the work
• A policy reader weighing rules on divorce and child care

Contents

1. Preface to the Enlarged Edition
2. Introduction
3. 1. Single-Person Households
4. 2. Division of Labor in Households and Families
5. Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor
6. 3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets
7. 4. Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets
8. 5. The Demand for Children
9. Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility
10. 6. Family Background and the Opportunities of Children
11. 7. Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
12. Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families
13. 8. Altruism in the Family
14. 9. Families in Nonhuman Species
15. 10. Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce
16. 11. The Evolution of the Family
17. Supplement: The Family and the State

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