TY - BOOK AU - Schultz,Theodore W. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. ED - Population Council TI - Economics of the family: marriage, children, and human capital :a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research SN - 0226740854 AV - HQ728 .E3 U1 - 306.85 PY - 1974/// CY - Chicago PB - Published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press KW - Families KW - Congresses KW - Marriage KW - Family size KW - Economic aspects KW - Fertility, Human N1 - Contains papers presented at two conferences held in June 1972 and June 1973, sponsored by NBER and the Population Council; Originally published as supplements to the Journal of political economy, 1973-1974; Includes bibliographical references and index; Fertility and economic values; Theodore W. Schultz --; Economic theory of fertility behavior; Robert J. Willis; Comment; Norman B. Ryder --; Interaction between quantity and quality of children; Gary S. Becker and H. Gregg Lewis --; Child quality and the demand for children; Dennis N. De Tray; Comment; Orley Ashenfelter --; Education and the derived demand for children; Robert T. Michael; Comment; Margaret G. Reid --; Economics of the size of North Carolina rural families; Bruce Gardner; Comment; Glen G. Gain --; Economic analysis of fertility in Israel; Yoram Ben-Porath; Comment; H. Gregg Lewis --; Economics of postwar fertility in Japan; Masanori Hashimoto; Comment; Gary R. Saxonhouse --; Birth rate changes over space and time : a study of Taiwan; T. Paul Schultz; Comment; James Tobin --; A theory of marriage; Gary S. Becker; Comment : the economics of nonmonetary variables; William J. Goode --; The U.S. marriage market; Alan Freiden; Comment; T. Dudley Wallace --; Benefits of women's education within marriage; Lee Benham; Comment; Finis Welch --; Family investments in human capital : earnings of women; Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polacheck; Comment; Otis Dudley Duncan --; Home investments in children; Arleen Leibowitz; Comment; Frank P. Stafford --; The effect of children on the housewife's value of time; Reuben Gronau; Comment; Robert E. Hall --; Effects of child-care programs on women's work effort; James J. Heckman; Comment; Sherwin Rosen --; Toward a new theory of population and economic growth; Marc Nerlove; Comment; Zvi Griliches ER -