2500+ words Essay

Key readings:

Becker, Gary S. A Treatise on the Family. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, US, 1991

Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage: A History – From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Viking Penguin, Penguin Group, 2005

Goldin, Claudia. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Supplementary literature:

Becker, Gary S. “A Theory of Marriage: Part I”, Journal of Political Economy 81 (4), 1973: pp. 813 – 846

Becker, Gary S. “A Theory of Marriage: Part II”, Journal of Political Economy

Becker, Gary S., Landes, Elizabeth M. and Michael, Robert T. “An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability”, Journal of Political Economy 85 (6), 1977: p. 1141 – 1187

Guinanne, Timothy. “The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists”, Journal of Economic Literature 49 (3), 2011: pp. 589 – 614

Hitsch, G.J., Hortascu, A. and Ariely, D. “Matching and Sorting in Online Dating”, American Economic Review 100 (1), 2010: pp. 130 – 163

Lundberg, Shelley and Pollak, Robert A. “Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (4), Autumn 1996, pp. 139 – 158.

McElroy, Marjorie B. and Horney, Mary J. “Nash-Bargained Household Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Demand,” International Economic Review 22, June 1981, pp. 333 – 349