Preface to the Enlarged Edition

Introduction

1. Single-Person Households

2. Division of Labor in Households and Families

Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor

3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets

4. Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets

5. The Demand for Children

Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility

6. Family Background and the Opportunities of Children

7. Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families

8. Altruism in the Family

9. Families in Nonhuman Species

10. Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce

11. The Evolution of the Family

Supplement: The Family and the State

Bibliography

Index