Gary Becker's classic study, A Theory of the Allocation of Time, laid the analytical foundations for the study of … household production and the allocation of time within the household. The analytical framework of household production theory … developed in this paper remained a pillar of his later work on the economics of the family and the economics of nonmarket …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner …

In this article, I summarize Griliches' contributions to economics and to applied econometrics …

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them …-specialties in economics and present evidence on the history and heterogeneity of those journals' impacts and the marginal citation … universities to rank economics departments by various measures and to demonstrate the importance of intra- and interdepartmental …

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent …

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is …. Several factors have influenced the economics of religion: (1) new developments in theoretical models including spatial models … economics of religion to reflect upon in years to come …

We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the …