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Gary S. Becker

Active 1957–2025

72
Papers
134,816
Citations
72
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Citations

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Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,154 citing papers, 40.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 900 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownGermany: 508 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownChina: 402 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownCanada: 370 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 301 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownAustralia: 261 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownFrance: 261 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownItaly: 248 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSpain: 199 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSweden: 188 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 175 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
0%40.8%Other 21.8%

Institutions

Fields

  • Social Sciences39.5%
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance19.2%
  • Business, Management and Accounting14.1%
  • Computer Science5%
  • Health Professions4.9%
  • Decision Sciences4.6%
  • Other12.7%

Topics

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics3.9%
  • Employment and Welfare Studies2.8%
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality2.3%
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies2.2%
  • Global Health Care Issues2.2%
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth2%
  • Other84.6%

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  1. Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1968 cited by 13,332

  2. Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1962 cited by 7,916

  3. Human Capital. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    Authors: H. V. Muhsam, Gary S. Becker - Revue de l Institut International de Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute 1965 cited by 5,240

  4. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - 1964 cited by 5,167

  5. A Theory of the Allocation of Time

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - The Economic Journal 1965 cited by 10,197

  6. A Theory of Rational Addiction

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy - Journal of Political Economy 1988 cited by 3,828

  7. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - 1976 cited by 5,020

  8. A Theory of Marriage: Part I

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1973 cited by 3,519

  9. Human Capital, A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education

    Authors: Guy Caire, Gary S. Becker - Revue économique 1967 cited by 1,942

  10. Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, H. Gregg Lewis cited by 2,894

  11. Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Nigel Tomes - Journal of Labor Economics 1986 cited by 2,889

  12. The Economics of Discrimination

    Authors: Richard Leonard, Gary S. Becker - The American Catholic Sociological Review 1957 cited by 2,951

  13. Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Labor Economics 1985 cited by 2,377

  14. An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Nigel Tomes - Journal of Political Economy 1979 cited by 2,258

  15. Market Insurance, Self-Insurance, and Self-Protection

    Authors: Isaac Ehrlich, Gary S. Becker - Hübner international series on risk, insurance, and economic security 1972 cited by 1,377

  16. A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy - The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1993 cited by 750

  17. A Theory of Social Interactions

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1974 cited by 2,865

  18. Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1993 cited by 1,588

  19. Health as human capital: synthesis and extensions

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Oxford Economic Papers 2007 cited by 434

  20. The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Casey B. Mulligan - The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1997 cited by 1,373

  21. The Economics of Discrimination

    Authors: Donald Dewey, Gary S. Becker - Southern Economic Journal 1958 cited by 381

  22. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education.

    Authors: Graham Pyatt, Gary S. Becker - The Economic Journal 1966 cited by 1,740

  23. The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge

    Authors: Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy - The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1992 cited by 1,196

  24. Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory

    Authors: Gary S. Becker - Journal of Political Economy 1962 cited by 1,189